VirtualBox 4.3.6 keyboard repeats keystrokes

[Kevin Oberman]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:38 PM, CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:
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>> > Hello :-)
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>> > 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..
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>> > Did anyone notice this behavior? What is the problem?
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>> > Best regards :-)
>> > Tomek
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>> > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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>> 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.
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> 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])
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> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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I only have tried VB, but I just realized that the problem is either an
upstream VB issue or an issue with the RDP implementation in rdesktop.

I just realized that I see the same issue when connected to a Linux Mint VB
client running on a Windows7 system.  The only common FreeBSD involvement
is that it us the RDP client.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com