I've seen this before and its very annoying. Seems to only happen with linux guests.
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:14 +0100, Erik J. Pessers wrote: > -----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
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