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# VZKeyboardConfiguration

The base class for a configuring a keyboard.

```
class VZKeyboardConfiguration
```

## Overview

`VZKeyboardConfiguration` defines the abstract interface that defines a virtual keyboard that you connect to a guest operating system. Don’t instantiate `VZKeyboardConfiguration` directly, use one of its subclasses such as [`VZUSBKeyboardConfiguration`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZUSBKeyboardConfiguration) instead.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`NSCopying`](/documentation/Foundation/NSCopying)

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

### Inherited By

[`VZMacKeyboardConfiguration`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZMacKeyboardConfiguration)

[`VZUSBKeyboardConfiguration`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZUSBKeyboardConfiguration)

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

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