Vbox 3.0.0: Keyboard is so sensitive that I can't login into guest => Please try 3.0.2

[grof]

Hi, after upgrading vbox 2.2.4 to vbox 3.0.0 keyboard become so sensitive that I can't login into Ubuntu guest anymore. For example if I type admin as userid I get something like: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddddddddddddddddmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnn

It looks all keys in keyboard are very sensitive, because <backspace> also deletes multiple characters.

Host (Windows XP) keyboard sensitivity is working OK. Keyboard sensitivity was also working OK on host and guset in vbox 2.2.4. So this is new bug in 3.0.0.

Host: Windows XP SP3 Guest: Ubuntu 9.04 desktop 32-bit VM: VitualBox 3.0.0

Regards

[grof]

Hi, I have powered down guest. Deleted all log files. Started guest again. And now keyboard works fine - it looks only first time guest was booted with keyboard too sensitive. Strange... Regards

[grof]

Hi, above log file is after second time when keyboard was not sensitive anymore. Don't know it this helps. So problem was solved by itself. Regards

[Frank Mehnert]

If this happens again, please try to do

cat /proc/cpuinfo

inside the guest (yes, I know, this is very difficult when the keyboard is extremely sensitive). You could also try to login into the VM with ssh. The output of the above command (remember, from the guest not from the host!) would be interesting. We have some cases here where the guest Linux detected a wrong bogomips value during boot causing all kinds of timing issues...

[Mark Gregson]

I'm having similar problems after upgrading to 3.0.0. In addition to the multiple keystrokes I had spontaneous display timeouts where the screen would go blank and require unlock with username and password.

Details:
Win XP Host
RHEL 4

cat /proc/cpuinfo:

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz
stepping : 11
cpu MHz : 2335.768
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 constant_tsc pni monitor
bogomips : 4671.32

[Frank Mehnert]

Doesn't look too bad but still, please try the upcoming maintenance release 3.0.2.

[grof]

Hi,
I have installed 3.0.2 over 3.0.0 and keyboard was not sensitive after first boot. It looks like this problem is solved.
Regards

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Thanks for the feedback.

[Mark Gregson]

The problem seems to have cleared up after I installed 3.0.2.