Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#5764 closed defect
Arrow and other keys not working when starting with VBoxSDL — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | harmscon | Owned by: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 3.1.0 |
| Keywords: | VBoxSDL arrow keys | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
Host: Ubuntu 9.10 32bit i386 Guest: Windows XP SP3 32bit i386 VirtualBox: 3.1
After upgrading the Host OS (from Ubuntu 8.04) the arrow keys, Home, End, Insert, PgUp, PgDwn, and / on the numeric keypad no longer work when starting the virtual machine with VBoxSDL.
The upgrade was an export Vbox virtual machine, format hard drive, clean install new OS and then import the vbox Virtual machine.
I use the following command to start VirtualBox: /usr/bin/gksudo -u fred 'VBoxSDL --startvm freds_VM --nofstoggle --termacpi'
After the upgrade mentioned above, the keyboard keys stopped working (sometimes the Start menu will open, other times it's like a right mouse click is pressed.)
If I start Virtual box like this: /usr/bin/gksudo -u fred VBoxManage startvm freds_VM
all keys work as expected and as they always have, no matter which of these two methods I use to start the VM.
So this appears to be specific to VBoxSDL.
