input hotkey to kill Xorg on guest without killing host X

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yug
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input hotkey to kill Xorg on guest without killing host X

Post by yug »

I am running VB Version 5.0.14 r105127 on Fedora 23.
I can pull down "input" from menubar but I don't see CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. If I hit that key combination it kills Xorg on the host which is totally unhealthy.
I'm running a game spin of fedora rawhide in VM testing out various games which often lock the xserver and I would rather kill X than the whole VM.
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Re: input hotkey to kill Xorg on guest without killing host

Post by Perryg »

This indicates the guest is doing something really unhealthy to the host. Does this also happen on other guests?
yug
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Re: input hotkey to kill Xorg on guest without killing host

Post by yug »

I guess I didn't make much sense in the original post. What I want to know is can I create my own hotkeys.
Like simply Ctrl+Alt that could be used with F# keys to escape to console on guest without the host receiving the input.
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