Hello Harry, On 20/07/14 05:53, Harry Putnam wrote: > Michael Thayer > <michael.tha...@oracle.com> writes: >> On 11/07/14 02:12, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> Running 4.3.12 VB on win7 host, with guest openindiana (solaris) >>> >>> What setting is likely to be responsible for me losing the keyboard on >>> an existing vbox vm when updated to newest 4.3.12? >> >> I am jumping in a little late here. What is your keyboard set-up? >> Standard PS/2 keyboard or USB? If you don't know it is likely the >> first, you can also check in the machine XML file (the ".vbox" file for >> the machine). Or are you using a physical USB keyboard directly with >> the machine? Can you start an Ubuntu live CD in the virtual machine to >> see if the keyboard works there? > > Actual keyboard setup is usb. > Virtual Keyboard setup is: > > Under `System' in vm settings: > usb tablet > [...] > OK, so its seems apparent that I've done something scewy to this one > vm. > > The vm in question is running OpenIndiana solaris 151_9. > > Here is what happens at bootup: > > When the welcome/signin screen appears, the keyboard works fine to > type in my username and passwd. Once the desktop appears, I click on > the few Icons I have and they respond as expected... so mouse is fine. > > I click an Xterm icon.... when xterm starts I cannot type anything > into it. Click an emacs icon... ditto... and onward. > > I can ssh into the vm and do anything I like. > > So still a mystery, but at least its apparent that it is a local > situation. And further that it only occurs in X. > > Anymore input of ideas would be well received here.
It sounds to me like something grabbing your keyboard. Perhaps one of these two links would help you (don't worry about talk of grabbing the pointer, it should still apply): https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc/entry/grabbing_information_from_the_x http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59141/find-x-org-pointer-grab-owner Otherwise the traditional method to fix that, if that is really the problem, is to ssh in and to kill things until the keyboard comes back. You could begin with "VBoxClient" processes to establish from the start whether we are to blame or not! By the way, although it is almost certainly not important after all, I presume your virtual machine is using PS/2 keyboard emulation. There is no function to change that in the graphical interface, what you referred to above is the pointer set-up. Hope that helps. Regards, Michael -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.tha...@oracle.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
