Hi Noel, On 07.02.2013 07:19, Noel Grandin wrote: > Hi > > I've noticed an issue where after a while the VBox built-in Remote > Desktop Server will stop forwarding keyboard events to the guest OS. > > How can I help track this down?
You could check if the keyboard events get passed to the VM, by using vboxshell.py - this needs a working python 2.x install (on the host system). Oh, I just realized that vboxshell.py is not included in the VirtualBox package for Windows (the python bindings are installed if python is found in the path at VirtualBox package install time - if you didn't have python installed already, just reinstall VirtualBox). You can fetch it from https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxShell/vboxshell.py?rev=43425&format=raw Anyway, after downloading you should be able to start the shell with "python vboxshell.py". It should print your VirtualBox version number and show a "vbox>" prompt. The command to perform the mentioned keyboard event dumping is "monitorGuestKbd <vmname> <timeout>", so if you want to get all keyboard events for the VM named myvm for 30 seconds you need to type "monitorGuestKbd 'myvm' 30". For all commands mentioned don't include the double quotes. If you run into any problems with this description please provide the error message(s). > Thanks, Noel Grandin > > Details > ----------- > VBox Version: 4.2.6 > Host OS: Windows 7 64-bit, fully patched > Guest OS: Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit > > If I stay connected from an RDP client (the Windows 7 one) for some > hours, eventually keyboard events will stop being forwarded to the guest OS. > Mouse events still work. Very unusual...this hasn't been reported by customers so far, and there are definitely plenty of them which have also extremely long-running VMs (and also connections to the VRDP server lasting for weeks). > I can still connect to the guest OS via VNC and the keyboard works. VNC works on a higher level, and this means that X11 and the related event handling machinery is happy. Good to know, narrows down the problem space. Klaus > > > > > > Disclaimer: http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
