On 05/21/2010 02:01 AM, Michael Thayer wrote:
> Hello NoOp,
> 
> Le jeudi 20 mai 2010 à 21:05 -0700, NoOp a écrit :
>> On 05/20/2010 08:50 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> > This is not a problem on my Win2K guest (linux host), but I am trying to
>> > get a WinXP guest via a second hard drive to run.
> [Snip]
>> > WinXP guest fires up w/o issue, but when it comes to the WinXP login
>> > screen I cannot enter the password. I get no keyboard input at all.
> Just a shot in the dark, but you didn't try to pass a USB keyboard on to
> the guest, did you?  If you did then you are probably best changing
> that, as it is handled automatically and properly by VirtualBox without
> the guest directly accessing the USB device.

That was one of my first thoughts, so I booted back up with a standard
PS2 keyboard. No change. I also booted into both profiles (I have one
set for 'physical' and one for 'virtual') on WinXP and that boots just
fine. Also the mouse is a standard PS2 mouse, so no USB involved there.

Now, on second thought... I _had_ previously click to add the USB
keyboard (Dell L100) via the Devices drop down. That killed the keyboard
for both host & guest so I had to hard reboot to get back. I wonder if
perhaps it left a trace in the xml file somewhere. I've 'purged' VB &
reinstalled. However I didn't delete the ~/.VirtualBox folder as I
didn't want to have to try and recreate the WinXP vmdk. I'll try that
today if I can't find anything obvious in the xml files.
  It's a test machine w/nothing important on the WinXP drive, so if I
bork something it won't matter much. I am trying to get the process down
so that I can do it on some of my other machines that do have real data
on them. Thanks for the suggestion.




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