Fedora-35 HOST + Windows 10/11 GUEST: Keyboard entries and Touchpad Taps stop responging, after ~10m

[nyceyes]

Dear Friends:

I have a bug that I've been facing for approaching 2-years (19-months, actually). No matter what I do, the bug remains. Let me explain.

The bug, which I describe further below, first appeared in August of 2020 on Fedora-32 64-bit, which is the HOST O/S. Back then, I had hoped that the bug would be confined to a particular Fedora Kernel and waited for the next one; but as I upgraded Fedora-32 Kernels, the bug persisted.

Then, I eventually upgraded to Fedora-33 (again, the HOST), and the bug persisted through that Fedora version and through all of its Kernels, as well. The same occurred with Fedora-34.

For Fedora-35, I decided to reinstall everything from scratch: I reinstalled Fedora-35 (HOST) from scratch; as well as reinstalled Windows-10 (GUEST). Without customizing much, except to apply the Extension Pack and Guest Additions, I launched a Windows-10 VM (with everything fresth). The bug immediately surfaced. It always takes about ~5 to 10 minutes to occur, by the way.

Now, all of this was on a Lenovo Y700-17isk Laptop.

So, I decided to do the same procedure on an ASUS G750 Rogue Laptop: I installed Fedora-35 (HOST) from scratch; as well as installed Windows-10 (GUEST) from scratch. Without customizing much, except to apply the Extension Pack and Guest Additions, I launched a Windows-10 VM (with everything fresh). The bug immediately surfaced.

No matter what I do, I cannot get rid of this bug. I think that circa August 2020, either Fedora and/or VirtualBox changed something that is causing this long-running bug.

THE PROBLEM:

-- I first reported this problem on August 2020 (Lenovo Y700-17isk laptop) ​here

-- Then, I reported this problam again yesterday, February 2022 (ASUS G750 Rogue) ​here

Here is a paste of yesterdays description for your convenience:

VirtualBox Version..................: 6.1.32_rpmfusion
HOST O/S............................: Fedora-35
HOST Kernel.........................: 5.14.10-300.fc35.x86_64
GUEST O/S (with latest updates......: Windows-11 (happens with Windows-10, as well)

What happens is this: VirtualBox is working perfectly (Network, Audio, Shared Drive, Cut & Paste, Keyboard & Mouse Capture, Mapped USB Devices, etc); but then suddenly, after, say, 5 to 10 minutes, the Keyboard stops responding to Keystrokes, and the Touchpad stops responding to Taps. The only thing that responds is moving the mouse-cursor around by swiping around the Touchpad, but that's it. This happens whether or not the GUEST (Windows 10 / 11) is in Fullscreen mode or Window mode. Except for being able to move the mouse-cursor around, Keystrokes and Touchpad Taps stop working inside the GUEST window, or around it on the HOST. The only option I have to to crash the Laptop by holding the power-button down. Actually, I did try to SSH into the HOST from another server, and while it does initiate the SSH connection, it never can never actually log in. So the HOST is still quote/unquote kind of running, but in a hobbled state.

I should also mention that this issue arises even with more basics setups: USB disabled; Audio disabled; Network with LAN or Bridged; etc.

Please help me. I think this is a real bug. It persists no matter what I do. For the better part of two-years, I haven't been able to use VirtualBox.

I can upload or add more information. Just let me know what you need.

Thank you in advance!

[tchoua]

I am facing the same issue since I upgrade my ubuntu 20.04 host to 22.04 this weekend

My bug is existing on the guest windows 10 hosted on my linux ubuntu with the VirtualBox Version 6.1.38_Ubuntu r153438 Guest addition 6.1.38, and virtualbox extention pack 6.1.38 r153438

Description bug : If I put the windows 10 gust OS on full screen (ctrl + F) I lost the mouse on the guest and the mouse is not working on some applications of the host (firefox, or virtualbox window application), but the mouse works on Gnome applications like (nautilus file explorer)

I reproduce this bug, on 3 differents PCs lenovo (same version of the host and guest)

This bug seems to be produce by the wayland server used since the version of ubuntu 22.04

I have get read of this bug by choosing on the login session screen the Xorg server instead of wayland (possible to do it by a small icon in the bottom right of the screen)

Hope it can help someone

Regards, Tchoua