Solaris 11.1 console layout switch in VirtualBox

I have Win7pro x64 as a VirtualBox host system and Solaris 11.1 as guest.
Solaris was installed in text mode, with default language and keymap settings (English).
Then I have changed locale settings:
pkg change-facet facet.locale.ru_RU=True
svccfg -s svc:/system/environment:init \
setprop environment/LANG = astring: ru_RU.UTF-8
svcadm refresh svc:/system/environment
and layout settings:
svccfg -s keymap:default setprop keymap/layout = Russian
svcadm refresh keymap
svcadm restart keymap
also I have tried:
kbd -s with selecting Russian
loadkeys
But after system reboot I still can't switch keyboard layout (US always).
I have tried all combinations of ctrl,shift,alt (and also "win key" and "menu").
This is when virtual machine have no GUI installed.
After installing GUI I have a login request window with RU layout and I can not switch to US layout to enter login name.
So I had to switch back keymap settings to enter the system:
svccfg -s keymap:default setprop keymap/layout = US-English
What am I doing wrong?
And whats the difference between "setprop keymap/layout" and "kbd -s"?
P.S. yes, I can use ssh for working with server. And now I am using it. But I have already spend enough time for working with this issue. Thats why I want to know the right answer.
Thanks!
Edited by: user13068010 on 29.05.2013 0:27

You are not doing anything wrong...
You've correctly set Russian facet (ru_RU), then you've correctly set the default system locale in LANG to ru_RU.UTF-8 locale and then you've correctly set the Russian keyboard layout for the console by modifying the keymap property with the correct value and refreshes/restarted it. (There is one more step you did not do: to run kbd -i so that the keymap kernel module will be loaded... it is a bug that was fixed in S11.2)
Unfortunately S11.1 does not have support for Russian Keyboard Layout in the Console, and so in the Console you are not able to input Russian characters even if all settings are correctly set, the input will fallback to the default input: US-English.
When you install GUI (I guess GNOME) then you are able to input Russian characters.
" And whats the difference between "setprop keymap/layout" and "kbd -s"? "
The SMF Property svc:/system/keymap:default is the one that stores the value of keymap/layout... and so what kbd -s <layout> does is: set keymap/layout value (<layout>) in Property svc:/system/keymap:default and then it refreshes and restarts the property . Additionally since S11.2 it also runs kbd -i and loadkeys commands.

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