-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 - ---snip--- Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAku/eYsACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDtFQCgrrZhw72nxu3E5AjldBU79Fum wegAnivLKlwlmdiLe2zCpq7+DHppWfFI =f9vx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
