-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all,
In my VirtualBox images, I seem to have a problem with keyboard keystroke repeat. In a guest OS session, when in a shell window, or a VI session, I hold down a key for a few moments, it suddenly keeps on repeating for several minutes in a row. E.g, arrow-down, or repeated 'dd' in VI kept pressed for a short time then released does quite often not just move down, or erase a few lines, but suddenly keeps repeating for several minutes (moving down or erasing rest of file and at end of file keeping to repeat like crazy). If I'm 'just in time' to release the pressed key, the behaviour is OK: repeating a few times then stopping. There seems to be a point where behaviour toggles from normal to erratic is a split second. I have this in Linux guests (both Centos and Debian have same symptoms); Windows guests do not seem to have the issue. While I have the issue in one guest, this is completely blocked (mouse moves work, but clicks are not giving any effect; other windows in the guest do not respond any more). When trying to stop the guest session, after some time I get a box telling me the session is not responding to host system signals, and I get an option to "forcequit". Other guests running at the time are responding, but when moving into another guest while the symptoms are locking another guest, I seem to lose randomly keystrokes in the other guest. On the host, I have no problems. And the locked guest does not seem to take excessive host resources (as per gnome-system-monitor) for VB 3.1.4 I tried this on systems with VirtualBox 3.0.2, and 3.1.4. Both seem to show similar behviour, though on 3.0.2 I could see the guest taking 100% of one CPU core while having the erratic behaviour. So may not be similar after all. I tried this on host systems running Debian-Lenny in 64-bit mode; and on Debian-Squeech (recent load) in 32-bit mode, with same results. Guests I tried where CentOS-4.8 (latest fixes); CnetOS-5.4 (latest fixes); Debian-Lenny; and Windows erver 2003. All guests in 32-bit mode. In all cases, I used the VB extensions for the guest OS and matching the VB version used. The symptoms are sort of annoying. Anyone out there that had similar issues and might suggest a solution? Thanks for responding to this. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuT3scACgkQhhTgjqsmnrSpNACghB3uDbhaGd0ty1V5XxFd+pgI 9WQAoIBBUjA2JsP/VolIlO4tnxdkdKcO =opZa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
