From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 583801EF704; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:57:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vserver.gregn.net (vserver.gregn.net [174.136.110.154]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 71C6E1EF701 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:57:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vbox.gregn.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:d:6c5:8129:366c:a28b:6e7e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vserver.gregn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D9A9669B for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:49:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=gregn.net; s=default; t=1430365757; bh=jP+Vpi9E/RXLFuSy2TajrijQrOEkhg6qxqQsP1r5A6U=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Mxa6cnrZF3kfoas73tlPJkBbLZzHIjHmXcoonZnbh+n6SoDE08coYBugNdMvtylGV IsY1vxXjDMIXsdy1GOxI15Q0dGKUr1kBHuZpzhJ4HtrRF+O6QQoCSGxkLEmTHvnajV JTIGUKnS4xanahxd0/CVDUxUvBtGwO9PC5kYwTc8= Received: from greg by vbox.gregn.net with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YnfWB-0004S5-LE for speakup@linux-speakup.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:52:07 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:52:07 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: virtualbox, was: Re: Kali Linux Message-ID: <20150430035207.GA14578@gregn.net> References: <20150429012332.GA15621@lava-net.com> <1dc8f431-1de2-4114-b344-3e8323c2b189@default> <20150429020326.GA23339@lava-net.com> <07cf8a7f-54f8-4276-8ad3-380bfb5bbcf3@default> <5540C493.5070903@cyber-wizard.com> <20150430010256.GA6976@lava-net.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150430010256.GA6976@lava-net.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.6 at vserver X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 03:57:53 -0000 Capturing/releasing the keyboard is described in I believe section 1.8.2 of the virtualbox manual. To capture/release the keyboard, you need to use the host key, which is your right control key by default. If you're in the guest, press your right control key to release the keyboard, and you should then be able to alt+tab to other windows. When you focus the virtualbox guest window again, it will capture your keyboard automatically, unless you disabled this. If you want to use the control key in your guest, use the left control key. So, ctrl+alt+f1 in the guest would be done using your left control and alt keys. If you're running on a gnu/linux host, then things get different as described in section 1.8.3 of the virtualbox manual. If you're running on a gnu/linux host, then pressing hostkey+f1 would enter ctrl+alt+f1 into the guest and so on. If this bothers you and you can't get used to it, you can remap the host key to something as I mentioned earlier. Alternatively, if you have a usb keyboard, and a place to put it, you can pass that keyboard through to the guest, and not have to deal with the whole host key thing. HTH. Greg On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:02:56PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hey all, > thanks for the replies! I test booted my installation while I was at work > earlier today, and got what seemed to be a GDM login screen; alt+f2 appeared to > have no effect, but this could be due to my having installed it within > Virtualbox. Speaking of virtual machines, presuming the installation (s) were > done within Virtualbox, how did you fully capture the keyboard so that you could > do ctrl+alt+f1 and the like? I ask because I have never gotten this to work > reliably. Also is there a kernel difference between the kernel that is used > during installation and that which is used in the installed system? Just trying > to rule out the possibility of unsupported virtual audio chipsets and the like. > Thanks! -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org