'keyboard type does not appear to be known to VirtualBox'

[Ingo]

following the recommendation in the VM's logfile:

"00:00:05.911 Your keyboard type does not appear to be known to VirtualBox. If 00:00:05.911 you would like to help us improve the product, please submit a bug 00:00:05.911 report, attach this logfile and provide information about what type 00:00:05.911 of keyboard you have and whether you are using a remote X server or 00:00:05.911 something similar."

I report my keyboard:

Keyboard is CHERRY RS 6000 M (installed as 'generic 105-key (Intel)PC' attached to PS/2-port. CHERRY-article-number: G83-6105LRNDE-2. See here: ​http://www.cherry.de/deutsch/produkt...4_G83-6105.htm and line 43 of this data sheet: ​http://www.cherry.de/PDF/DE_G83-6104_G83-6105.pdf

[Ingo]

Logfile with keyboard map for 'unknown keyboard'

[Ingo]

In fact it is VBox 2.0.8 (this version was not offered in the list)

[Michael Thayer]

VirtualBox can't seem to find (or at least identify by name) your caps lock key. Can you think of any reason that might be happening?

[Ingo]

Can you think of any reason that might be happening?

Probably this:

to avoid activate caps lock accidently I converted the key to 'shift left' by creating a file ~/.Xmodmap containing

remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Shift_L
add Shift = Shift_L

But this modification is on a user bas, not globally.

[Michael Thayer]

VirtualBox runs as user, only the core of the software runs in kernel mode, so it sees your user's keyboard layout. Thanks for reporting back, I will close this ticket (and try to improve on our reporting heuristics slightly).