"repeat delay" resets after saved state

[dyname212]

Since some 4 versions back (2-3 months) the "repeat delay keyboard" resets to default value for any windows guest systems. This only happens when you start from a saved VM state.

The behavior is similar to when you disconnect a physical keyboard from a physical windows machine. Connecting the keyboard back RESETS the repeat delay and Repeat Rate to slow default value.

Here are steps to simulate this defect:

1. start a winxp, win7 or win2k3 virtual machine. When the machine completes booting change the keyboard repeat rate and delay to max:

2. Go to Control Panel-> keyboard-> repeat delay->set to max

repeat rate->set to max hit OK

3. Check the rate, it should be pretty fast and without a delay

4. Click the close window on Mac (red box on top left) to try to close the virtulbox window (or use command+Q)

5. click "save the machine state"

6. When the saving state is completed go to main virtual box window and click Machine->start

the virtual box should get to the saved state.

7. Open a notepad and try the repeat-delay and repeat-rate you'd notice that the keyboard rate was reset to the default sloow value.

Again this started to happen 3 months back (3-4 versions back) on the mac lion host running ANY windows guest system.

[Michael Thayer]

I'm afraid this isn't reproducible here (64-bit Linux host, though that shouldn't be relevant) - actually this was a known problem in 4.2.10 which was meant to be fixed in 4.2.12. Perhaps you can investigate a bit more to see if you can find out anything else which might help us to reproduce it? For instance try installing a new virtual machine and see if it occurs there?

[Frank Mehnert]

No response, closing.