On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: <SNIP> >> This VM, running in Virtualbox-4.0.0 on Win 7 didn't work. A more or >> less identical Gentoo VM running on a Gentoo server (yes, Gentoo >> within Gentoo) didn't switch to the VM's console but switched to the >> server's console. Assuming I was actually capturing keyboard strokes >> by the VM that doesn't make sense to me but possible things like Alt& >> Alt-Ctrl sequences are handled differently by Linux. Dunno.. >> >> Anyway, the gentoo=nox solution worked great for my needs. > > It's always good to be able to switch to the consoles without needing a > reboot. Since you're on VirtualBox, maybe this helps: > > http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox#Switchingconsoles
That works great. Thanks! Default setup is <Right-Ctrl>-F1 to get to the console as Right-Ctrl is the VB default host key. I was always using Left-Ctrl yesterday. Again, thanks! - Mark
