From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 4 06:36:19 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A033E55; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 06:36:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x22e.google.com (mail-pd0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E95FE1869; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 06:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f174.google.com with SMTP id z10so7864609pdj.33 for ; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:36:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=CHWqzzVYMPzjlUVmt9rnqOjVhN6TTeblZOsDf1MiyRA=; b=Mr08HIBl8942XcE9LY2wN9/yTRgDX8VTKTkoP9aBIKz6Diqikl1rJXWrHjWUc8XKRw +Ts4pRd6DFXEAZCEY09/TWMSSX0Dk5mxnVd7yyZYXteZsSafzy4Dx0cg7+NQESI+h+LH +dpU+Wm3XkygjT8PLh27/1AInJvjk8YsJLlj/0uYz4vnl5m6UAQT9RsCqhpnX7yShoed deHKs0LFqnyWf0gsTq5VWL1DswIvwXVmjO6pPZM3KdT6aXFdYECiNWmMuWPfsUz9YHsg 09ccT6FN15ACt911NMlC7FwSEYkW3jCqDkYbgzx1fTE61ro/5WLVIQvYHJMUlHVa+1dH xVmA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.224.109 with SMTP id rb13mr41473173pac.78.1391495778523; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:36:18 -0800 (PST) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.67.30.1 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 22:36:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 22:36:18 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: -VtR5pypiTddrO3vDKq-vzxE7Eg Message-ID: Subject: Re: VirtualBox 4.3.6 keyboard repeats keystrokes From: Kevin Oberman To: Aryeh Friedman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable , CeDeROM X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 06:36:19 -0000 On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:38 PM, CeDeROM wrote: >> >> > Hello :-) >> > >> > I have noticed that quite often keystrokes are repeated in VBox 4.3.6 >> > OSE on FreeBSD-10.0 AMD64. For example when I press cursor left it >> > repeats many times, letters also. The fast way to stop this is to >> > switch to another application on my BSD box then switch back to VBox.. >> > >> > Did anyone notice this behavior? What is the problem? >> > >> > Best regards :-) >> > Tomek >> > >> > -- >> > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info >> > >> >> I have this issue, but only when logged into the VM remotely via RDP. From >> the local console this never happens. It is intermittent and never happens >> when the session is first opened. >> > > Do you notice this only in VBox or other hypervisiors like bhyve or qemu? > (Some motherboards do not like virtualization even when the CPU allows it > one easy way to test this is with petitecloud [you might even find it a > good replacement for vbox]) > -- > Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org > I only have tried VB, but I just realized that the problem is either an upstream VB issue or an issue with the RDP implementation in rdesktop. I just realized that I see the same issue when connected to a Linux Mint VB client running on a Windows7 system. The only common FreeBSD involvement is that it us the RDP client. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com