VirtualBox 4.3.6 keyboard repeats keystrokes

Aryeh Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Tue Feb 4 03:03:24 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:38 PM, CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:
>
> > Hello :-)
> >
> > I have noticed that quite often keystrokes are repeated in VBox 4.3.6
> > OSE on FreeBSD-10.0 AMD64. For example when I press cursor left it
> > repeats many times, letters also. The fast way to stop this is to
> > switch to another application on my BSD box then switch back to VBox..
> >
> > Did anyone notice this behavior? What is the problem?
> >
> > Best regards :-)
> > Tomek
> >
> > --
> > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
> >
>
> I have this issue, but only when logged into the VM remotely via RDP. From
> the local console this never happens. It is intermittent and never happens
> when the session is first opened.
>

Do you notice this only in VBox or other hypervisiors like bhyve or qemu?
(Some motherboards do not like virtualization even when the CPU allows it
one easy way to test this is with petitecloud [you might even find it a
good replacement for vbox])
-- 
Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org


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