Added by dheidler about 6 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.
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For tests like https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/30589 it would be easier if there was an option in openQA to change the keyboard layout at runtime.
I assume you would like to have a test API function for this. However, adding this kind of utility function on test distribution level makes maybe more sense? If it becomes widely used we can still move it to os-autoinst.
I don't see any sence putting this on the distribution level as it has nothing to do with the distribution - only with the virtual hardware.
Eg. the VNC keyboard layout mapping could be changed at runtime.
there is no keyboard layout mapping in openQA, there is one in qemu only. And I'm not even sure it can be changed at runtime
I don't think it's needed to change the keyboard layout actually at "runtime". If necessary one can use a job with one keyboard layout, publish hdd, load hdd on a machine with different layout. With gh#os-autoinst/os-autoinst#1051 and commit 6433e1e4 it is possible to append any potential qemu parameter. With the parameter "-k" the layout can be specified.