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Hello all.

After upgrading to vbox 1.6.0, I'm finding that I'm having strange
keyboard issues in a debian testing guest, running under a winxp pro
host. What is happening is that keyboard input in the guest is
sluggish, and some of the key strokes are going through to the host,
instead of the guest. I've also found that when holding down either
shift key to type a capital letter in the guest, the shift key seems
to be "stuck" for some letters, but not for others, (I.E. if I type an
"r", I get an "R" no matter what I do, but typing an "e" will give me
an "e" as it should).

Finally, this seems to effect the host as well. Once I halt the guest,
I've found that random things will happen with the keyboard in the
host. For example, the startmenu key won't work at times. Ctrl+esc
acts as ctrl+alt+del. I get capital letters when typing small letters,
and the reverse is true, and things of that nature. The host keyboard
issues go away once I reboot the host, and until I start the guest
again.

My machine has been acting up lately, so I wanted to know if others
running linux guests under windows hosts were having this same sort of
problem under vbox 1.6.0, before I went ahead, and called it a vbox
bug, instead of a hardware problem on my end. Having said that though,
my machine is fine in general, and only has intermittent problems, and
I didn't have these keyboard issues when running the same guest vm
under 1.5.6 or earlier. Oh yes, I do have the 1.6.0 linux additions
installed in the guest.

Greg


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