Keyboard on VM scrambled.

[CShadowRun]

Hi, i use ubuntu hardy heron, and i have a custom keyboard layout (colemak)

The change was made by me changing xorg.conf.

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Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+colemak"
EndSection

Pretty standard method afaik.

So, my keyboard layout should look like this:

1234567890-=
qwfpgjluy;[]
arstdhneio'#
zxcvbkm,.\/

but in the VM it looks like this.

1234567890']
x,yrucpftz-=
ao;khjldgsq\
/bi.nvmwe\[

I'm a new virtualbox user obviously, so try and make any instructions as detailed as possible.

Thanks in advance for your help

Edit: forgot to mention the actual hardware setup of my keyboard is standard UK qwerty, with the keycaps re-arranged.

Another edit: Guests are XP and Vista, both have the same issue.

[CShadowRun]

i "fixed" this by editing the registry and re-assigning the keys properly, i doubt this will work outside windows. But it's a good temporary fix

keytweak saves the day :p