Arrow and other keys not working when starting with VBoxSDL

[harmscon]

Host: Ubuntu 9.10 32bit i386
Guest: Windows XP SP3 32bit i386
VirtualBox: 3.1

After upgrading the Host OS (from Ubuntu 8.04) the arrow keys, Home, End, Insert, PgUp, PgDwn, and / on the numeric keypad no longer work when starting the virtual machine with VBoxSDL.

The upgrade was an export VBox virtual machine, format hard drive, clean install new OS and then import the vbox Virtual machine.

I use the following command to start VirtualBox:

/usr/bin/gksudo -u fred 'VBoxSDL --startvm freds_VM --nofstoggle --termacpi'

After the upgrade mentioned above, the keyboard keys stopped working (sometimes the Start menu will open, other times it's like a right mouse click is pressed.)

If I start Virtual box like this:

/usr/bin/gksudo -u fred VBoxManage startvm freds_VM

all keys work as expected and as they always have, no matter which of these two methods I use to start the VM.

So this appears to be specific to VBoxSDL.

[Frank Mehnert]

I'm quite sure your problems are gone when you append the --evdevkeymap switch to your VBoxSDL parameters.