[OpenIndiana-discuss] Peculiar behavior when start running vbox vms

[Kees Nuyt]

On Sat, 13 May 2017 19:08:01 -0400, you wrote:

> OS:
>   oi hipster latest updates as of yesterday
> Hardware:
>   HP xw8600 workstation 2x Xeon 5470 3.33ghz - 32 GB ram
>   3 matched sets of disks in mirror configuration. (including rpool)
>   4 TB total space
>   
>I jumped from oi 151_9 to hipster about 1.5 mnths ago.  I was running
>6 Vbox vms that I cp'ed over to the hipster install but could never
>get Vbox installed to run them.
>
>2 days ago, thanks to Jim K and who ever may have helped with his
>patches for Vbox  pkgs from their site, I now have a running
>Vbox-5.0.28 and have fired up the 6 vms.
>
>vms are 2 gentoo linux, 2 debian linux, 2 oi-hipster
>
>OK, getting to the chase:  In every one of those vms the Ctrl key on
>std 104 key US keyboard does not work.  Needless to say such things as vim
>and emacs suffer severely when Ctrl does not work.
>
>Even the xterms I use a lot, suffer with no capablility to for INT Ctrl-c, or
>^c.
>
>I'm guessing the main OS (oi-hipster) has in someway hijacked
>exclusive use of CTRL key.  But I have no idea how to begin to fix
>this.
>
>I could really use some input regarding how to go about isolating the
>cause and fixing it.
>
>Two other thing with possible relevance is (1) that I use xbindkeys on all
>the OS's and have for yrs including on OI.
>
>(Xbindkeys is little program that allows you to see key combos to
>start almost anything, run specific commands and etc.)
>
>Used xbindkeys for several years on OI pre hipster and now on hipster.
>
>I use it with guile which means the config file is in a kind of lisp.
>That two has been the case for several years including on OI pre
>hipster.
>
>And (2) I did just do an update yesterday... just so happens that I
>just did get the vms running at the same time so hard to say if that
>would have any bearing.

By default, the right Ctrl key is assigned to the VBox "Host" key, 
and totally captured by VBox whenever a VM window has the focus.
The left Ctrl key should behave as usual.
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#idm8607

HTH

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Regards,
Kees Nuyt