Keystrokes not captured on ESXi based Windows Host

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Anand Rao
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Keystrokes not captured on ESXi based Windows Host

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Hi,

I have a ESXi based Hypervisor using which we have created 10 Windows 7 based VMs.

On one of the Windows 7 VMs, I have installed VirtualBox 5.1.26 and imported an existing VM with Oracle Linux 6.3.

When I boot the Linux VM, I am unable to type anything into the Linux box. Cannot type username but the screen echoes the characters when i type the password...this is weird!

I am accessing the Linux VM from an external WAN link using Myrtille. Example: https://1.2.3.4/myrtille

The VirtualBox "Host" keyboard capturing is auto-enabled and I even tried disabling it.

Has anybody faced this type of an issue before? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Anand
mpack
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Re: Keystrokes not captured on ESXi based Windows Host

Post by mpack »

Nested virtualization is not supported. We have no idea what will break when you do that.
Anand Rao
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Re: Keystrokes not captured on ESXi based Windows Host

Post by Anand Rao »

Thanks for the reply mpack.
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