VirtualBox 4.3.6 keyboard repeats keystrokes

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 :-)
>>> >
>>> > 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
>>> >
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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])
>>  --
>> 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.
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> 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.
>

If you have VNC enabled VM's (if I remember right it is a vbox option) do
they behave the same way?
-- 
Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org