id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	guest	host
7212	Fedora 13  guest  fails, error looks like keyboard failure	John Foderaro		"This bug report is described on the forums at
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33034

Since that report was made I've done further testing.  The failure occurs whether the
host is Windows 7 or Linux. 

Also it appeared that keyboard input was simply not being accepted after 20 minutes or so.
Further testing showed that the keyboard input was accepted it is just that the display wasn't
being updated to show the characters being entered and the results of entering such characters.
It is as if X believes that a large opaque window covers the whole screen.  Thus X appears to not be sending redraw events to the windows on the screen.  Certain operations can force the windows to redraw themselves even without a repaint event and in that case you see the keystrokes you've been making beforehand.

This failure seems to occur more quickly if network activity is happening.  
I took a totally vanilla Fedora 13  install and added the Forecast Fox extension to Firefox.  This caused periodic network activity to check the weather. 

Within 20 minutes the guest had gotten into the state described above where windows are not redrawn so it appears that the keyboard isn't working.

The bottom line is that there is something in Fedora 13 that is not compatible with Virtual Box 3.2.6.

"	defect	closed	other	VirtualBox 3.2.6	obsolete			other	other