I’ve imported my windows box into VirtualBox (howto) and noticed that the keyboard layout is all screwed up.
My Googling suggests that a German and Swedish bloke/bird/person have fixed this issue but no-one in the UK.
Attached is my UK Keyboard layout, also the source file so you can use microsoft keyboard layout creator to make your own.
To use, simply unzip, run setup, and then in your keyboard settings (control panel) change to “English UK – Apple MacBook Pro” … you may wish to remove the default UK keyboard to avoid confusion.
This works well for me in VirtualBox, I would expect it to work in VMWARE / Parallels but I’ve not tested it, as with everything I do YMMV 
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I tried the above keyboard layout on my setup (Windows XP SP3 on VirtualBox 3.1.4 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 on a MacBookPro5,5 with a British keyboard) and I found the shifted (uppercase) letters missing (i.e. nothing happens if you press Shift-). I’ve created my own layout with the uppercase letters included which you can find at http://www.tty00.org/downloads/apple-uk.zip – source file is at http://www.tty00.org/downloads/apple-british.klc
Hi Scott,
Yeah I think the version I uploaded to the virtualbox site had that bug, the version here should work… anyhow… googlers have a choice now
Thanks dude – works a treat
I’m not quite sure what you built this for. All the things I specifically love about Apple’s UK layout are missing, most noteworthy the glyph modifiers to create special letters used in German, Polish etc. writings (alt-u will not modify the next keypress to create äöü etc.) Shift-alt-minus (-) does not give an em-dash and so forth. Maybe I was hoping for too much and Windows just isn’t capable of acting the way I’d like it to…
It’s built for my personal use, I only just about speak one language
… I suspect to use special char you in windows-virtual box you have to use the windows keyboard shortcuts not the mac ones, which is probably going to be an issue as you need the Alt-GR key.