virtualbox, was: Re: Kali Linux

[Don Raikes]

Igor et al,

How are you getting virtualbox to work on windows? The last time I tried it (about a year ago) the gui was totally inaccessible with jaws.  I would really appreciate knowing how others are getting it to work since my laptop can't handle vmware workstation maybe it will handle virtualbox instead.
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From: Igor Gueths [mailto:igueths at lava-net.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 9:31 AM
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Subject: Re: virtualbox, was: Re: Kali Linux

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!
> 
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