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@ and ~ symbols unavailable in Xubuntu on VirtualBox with Norwegian keyboard
I`m running Xubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint 14 in VirtualBox 4.10 with Windows 7 as the host system. My keyboard is a Logitech G110 with a Norwegian layout, and I have configured the host ...
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Make Ctrl-Page Up, Ctrl-Page Down work in VirtualBox guest
I'm on Windows VirtualBox use windows guests, seems like Ctrl-Page Up/Page Down don't work in them. Personally I need this for Far manager, it's a console app, but I checked this in gui apps ...
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Lost the shift+← and shift+→ key combinations
On my laptop I have somehow lost the shift+← and shift+→ key combinations.
Setup:
Ubuntu 12.10 OS
Windows 7 running in Virtual box
Synergyc running on the Linux Host
Connected to Synergys running ...
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Linux Teamviewer, Windows in VirtualBox: keyboard only passes alphanumerics
From Teamviewer on XP (remote) to Teamviewer on Fedora 17 with XP or Win7 VMs, can't pass any keys except alphanumerics ([a-zA-Z0-9]) to Windows. This has persisted thru 3 Fedora releases and 3 or 4 ...
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Keyboard Issue with Synergy, Oracle Virtual Box & Linux Hosts
I'm getting weird behavior using synergy with Oracle Virtual Box VM over Linux Ubuntu systems.
My setup has
A Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (synergy server) with US International keyboard layout ...
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Virtualbox, using the same keybord layout of the host in the guest os
I'm using Virtualbox 4.1.12 on Debian x64 and my host OS is Windows XP Professional 64-bit.
On Debian I'm using a custom keyboard layout that I set on system startup through the command setxkbmap.
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Keyboard mapping issue in Virtualbox on Mac OS
I run Windows 7 as a VM in VirtualBox on my MacBook Air (using OS X 10.7). If I do not shutdown the VM but save its machine state. The keyboard will behave strangely after resuming. It seems the ...
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Norwegian keyboard keys don't work with Ubuntu in VirtualBox
I just installed VirtualBox (from Oracle) in Windows 7, and created a virtual machine with latest Ubuntu.
Here in Firefox I can use the left Ctrl key, while the right one doesn't have any effect. ...
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VirtualBox: trying to boot Win XP in Safe Mode: how to do ctrl-alt-delete?
I am trying to boot a Win XP Pro VM in Safe Mode in Virtual Box 4.1.4
I used DISK2VHD to create the VHD. The VHD is 95GB on disk but VirtualBox reports it as 145GB. The boot hangs, so I'm trying to ...
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Moved existing XP installation to Virtualbox, but mouse and keyboard not recognized
I have a dualboot system, Ubuntu and WinXP. I wanted to run my existing XP installation as a virtual machine under Ubuntu, so I installed Virtualbox, and followed the instructions on this page: ...
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Installing Ubuntu server on VirtualBox - stuck on language selection screen
I have VirtualBox 3.0 on top of Windows 7x64 and a copy of Ubuntu server x64 I want to install on it. It will happily boot off the image, ask me to select my installer language and then one of the ...
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Keyboard in Oracle VirtualBox
My buddy is running Oracle VirtualBox, and everything works fine - except for the fact that the backslash ( \ ) key on a Swiss-German keyboard doesn't work - instead you're getting a vertical bar ( | ...
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Key is not detected in xev neither showkey -k in Ubuntu 10.04 in a Virtualbox VM
My question mark key in my keyboard isn't working. ("?"). I've tried to use xev and showkey -k to try to identify at least a keycode and manually use xmodmap to map it.
Unfortunately, the keys aren't ...
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Dedicated Mouse and Keyboard on VirtualBox VM
Currently I am trying to run VirtualBox on my second monitor, with a dedicated mouse and keyboard. However, doing so has not proven easy. There has been times where the mouse works, but not the ...
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Dedicated mouse and keyboard for a virtual machine, is it possible?
Let's say I have a PC with two monitors atached. I'm running e.g. Windows Vista natively, and start up a virtual Ubuntu PC. I change to fullscreen mode so that on one Monitor, I see my Windows ...
