VirtualBox: Pressing some key few times fast causes an event storm

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> I run Ubuntu guest on FreeBSD host.
> I am in Open Accessories/Terminal app
>
> I get this quite often: when I press some button fast few times it gets
> pressed endless number of times. This can be Enter after some command. Or
> Up/Down on some large file in vim. Guest behaves like I pressed this button
> infinite number of times and stops responding.
>
> Trying to close the guest window causes window manager to ask if I would
> like to terminate the virtualbox application altogether. This means that
> this window isn't responding.
>
> Is this a known bug?
>

Yes, it is not specific to FreeBSD and really not even specific to
VirtualBox since VMware guests can also experience the issue.  There are
resolutions to it, if you bother to look.

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Adam Vande More