{"id":12828,"date":"2012-06-13T13:36:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12828"},"modified":"2012-06-13T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:36:34","slug":"kb2711774-altgr-key-does-not-work-in-red-hat-linux-virtual-vm-on-a-w2008r2-hyper-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12828","title":{"rendered":"KB2711774 &#8211; AltGr Key Does Not Work In Red Hat Linux virtual VM On A W2008R2 Hyper-V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2711774\/en-us?sd=rss&amp;spid=14134\" target=\"_blank\">hotfix <\/a>for Linux VMs on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.\u00a0 This time it is for when the AltGr key does not work in a Red Hat Linux virtual machine on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consider the following scenario:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You install the Hyper-V role on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2.<\/li>\n<li>You install Red Hat Linux on a virtual machine.<\/li>\n<li>You connect to the virtual machine from a computer that is connected to a non-US keyboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this scenario, the AltGr key does not work in the Red Hat Linux virtual machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A supported <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/hotfix\/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2711774&amp;kbln=en-us\" target=\"_blank\">hotfix<\/a> is available from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:f1c5b62c-3bdb-4250-a7c8-c22a7c2c288e\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2008+R2\">Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Linux\">Linux<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another hotfix for Linux VMs on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.\u00a0 This time it is for when the AltGr key does not work in a Red Hat Linux virtual machine on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer. Consider the following scenario: You install the Hyper-V role on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12828\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KB2711774 &#8211; AltGr Key Does Not Work In Red Hat Linux virtual VM On A W2008R2 Hyper-V&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,184,195,117],"class_list":["post-12828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-linux","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}