virtualization, was: Re: an observation, and question

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:36:20PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> AS far as I know, the only thing VBoxManage cannot do that the GUI can is map
> alternate host keys, and even then I figured out that VBoxSDL can arbitrarily do
> it via VBoxSDL --detecthostkey && VBoxSDL --hostkey <above values>.

No, VBoxManage can do that too. Since the old vbox-users list is gone,
and there are no archives as far as I know, I'll post below a reply I
got from Frank from the virtualbox team on this issue:

From: Frank Mehnert <frank at innotek.de>
To: vbox-users at virtualbox.org
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:20:26 +0200
Subject: Re: [vbox-users] host key




Hi Greg,

the host key value you see is an internal value of the host system,
that
is an Xorg value on Linux and a completely different system on
Windows.
The following values should be valid for Windows hosts (I cannot test
it
currently):

  160    left shift key
  161    right shift key
  162    left control key
  163    right control key
  164    left menu key
  165    right menu key

Kind regards,

Frank

On Monday 09 July 2007, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Yes, but I haven't managed to figure out all the details. Let me
> explain what I know so far, and maybe someone at Innotek will be
kind
> enough to provide a more complete explanation instead of just saying
> that the explanation is too complicated and prone to error, and
> leaving it at that.
>
> Under winxp as the host, I was able to play around in the gui
> interface, and figured out that alt+f to get into the file menu,
> followed by hitting i, got me into the input settings where you can
> change the hostkey. A bit of tabbing around and listening to what
> window-eyes was saying, allowed me to successfully change the
hostkey
> to be the right alt key.
>
> Running "vboxmanage getextradata global enumerate", showed me that
one
> of the keys defined was "GUI/Input/HostKey", and that its value was
> "165. So, from that, I know that in order to set the hostkey to
right
> alt you'd do:
>
> vboxmanage setextradata global "GUI/Input/HostKey" 165
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Greg


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