Keyboard inoperative on Solaris 10 or Solaris 8 guest

[Tim Small]

Host: 64bit Debian 4.0 (Etch)

Tested on 1.5.6 (S8 and S10 guest), and 1.6.0 (S10 guest), keyboard input works correctly on both versions of the Solaris installer up until the point where the kernel is booted (i.e. kbd input to boot loader works fine). S10 appears to recognise no keyboard input, S8 on 1.5.6 doesn't accept anything until the return key is pressed, and then it behaves as if the 'a' key is being held down.

S10 guest keyboard input appears to work OK on 1.6.0 when ACPI is disabled.

[Tim Small]

zebedee:~# uname -a ; cat /proc/cpuinfo ; dpkg -l virtualbox Linux zebedee 2.6.25-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sat May 17 12:53:43 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 2166.660 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 4352.45 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:

processor : 1 <snip>

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

/ Name Version Description

+++-=================================-=================================-================================================================================== ii virtualbox 1.6.0-30421_Debian_etch Sun xVM VirtualBox

[Tim Small]

Ahem....

zebedee:~# uname -a ; cat /proc/cpuinfo ; dpkg -l virtualbox
Linux zebedee 2.6.25-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sat May 17 12:53:43 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 15
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7400  @ 2.16GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 2166.660
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4352.45
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 1
<snip>

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                              Version                           Description
+++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
ii  virtualbox                        1.6.0-30421_Debian_etch           Sun xVM VirtualBox

[hilander]

Same problem under Gentoo (P4 HT, kernel 2.6.26), VBox 1.6.2 OSE, guest Solaris 8. After booting the kernel keyboard does not work.

[Frank Mehnert]

The Solaris 8 problem will be fixed in the upcoming 3.1.0 release (you can try the Beta 1).

[michaln]

This was fixed a long time ago (in version 3.1.0 as the previous comment indicates).