From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 843D91EF703; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:31:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lava-net.com (shadwiga.lava-net.com [98.118.96.18]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F071EF6FB for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:31:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lava-net.com (Postfix, from userid 1020) id D196927800D; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:30:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:30:54 -0400 From: Igor Gueths To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: virtualbox, was: Re: Kali Linux Message-ID: <20150430163054.GA9356@lava-net.com> 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> <20150430035207.GA14578@gregn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150430035207.GA14578@gregn.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-lava-net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: D196927800D.618EA X-lava-net-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-lava-net-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0, required 4) X-lava-net-MailScanner-From: igueths@lava-net.com X-Spam-Status: No 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 16:31:14 -0000 Hey Greg, thanks for the tip! I obviously have been neglecting the RTFM time that Virtualbox requires as of late...Will definitely give that a try though. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:52:07PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Igor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.