Linux Mint Host, Windows 7 Guest: Lose Keyboard Occasionally.

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Korvas
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Linux Mint Host, Windows 7 Guest: Lose Keyboard Occasionally.

Post by Korvas »

I run Linux Mint as my main OS, but I have a Windows 7 guest, mostly for data analysis with Excel. Occasionally, for no apparent reason, the Windows guest will lose keyboard input completely. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, it seems to require a reboot to fix, and it can be frustrating to close out everything I was working on to start over where I left off. Anybody else experience this phenomenon? Any ideas as to what causes it and/or how to avoid it? Let me know what more you want to diagnose the problem and I'll post it. Thanks.

VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 5.2.34_Ubuntu r133883

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Computer
Summary
Computer
Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory	16272MB (3550MB used)
Machine Type	Notebook
Operating System	Linux Mint 19.2 Tina
Date/Time	Sun 01 Dec 2019 06:38:27 AM EST
Display
Resolution	1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer	GeForce GTX 1060/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor	The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter	HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
Audio Adapter	HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Input Devices
Sleep Button	
Power Button	
Lid Switch	
Power Button	
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard	
Video Bus	
Video Bus	
Logitech USB Trackball	
Asus Wireless Radio Control	
USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam: USB2.0 HD	
Asus WMI hotkeys	
ELAN1200:00 04F3:30BA Touchpad	
HDA Intel PCH Front Headphone	
HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm:3	
HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm:7	
HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm:8	
HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm:9	
HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm:10	
HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm:3	
Printers (CUPS)
M2020-Series	Default
MP150	
SCSI Disks
ATA Samsung SSD 850	
Operating System
Version
Kernel	Linux 4.15.0-70-generic (x86_64)
Version	#79-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 10:36:11 UTC 2019
C Library	GNU C Library / (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1) 2.27
Distribution	Linux Mint 19.2 Tina
Current Session
Computer Name	thievesguild
User Name	krovas (krovas)
Language	en_US.UTF-8 (en_US)
Home Directory	/home/krovas
Misc
Uptime	3 days 22 hours 25 minutes
Load Average	0.29, 0.36, 0.55
Available entropy in /dev/random	3646 bits (healthy)
Kernel Modules
Loaded Modules
snd_seq_dummy	ALSA sequencer MIDI-through client
wacom	USB Wacom tablet driver
ses	SCSI Enclosure Services (ses) driver
enclosure	Enclosure Services
scsi_transport_sas	SAS Transport Attributes
uas	
usb_storage	USB Mass Storage driver for Linux
rfcomm	Bluetooth RFCOMM ver 1.11
pci_stub	
vboxpci	Oracle VM VirtualBox PCI access Driver
vboxnetadp	Oracle VM VirtualBox Network Adapter Driver
vboxnetflt	Oracle VM VirtualBox Network Filter Driver
vboxdrv	Oracle VM VirtualBox Support Driver
bnep	Bluetooth BNEP ver 1.3
snd_hda_codec_hdmi	HDMI HD-audio codec
arc4	ARC4 Cipher Algorithm
iwlmvm	The new Intel(R) wireless AGN driver for Linux
snd_hda_codec_realtek	Realtek HD-audio codec
mac80211	IEEE 802.11 subsystem
snd_hda_codec_generic	Generic HD-audio codec parser
joydev	Joystick device interfaces
nvidia_uvm	
hid_multitouch	HID multitouch panels
nvidia_drm	
8250_dw	Synopsys DesignWare 8250 serial port driver
nvidia_modeset	
nvidia	
asus_nb_wmi	Asus Notebooks WMI Hotkey Driver
asus_wmi	Asus Generic WMI Driver
sparse_keymap	Generic support for sparse keymaps
wmi_bmof	WMI embedded Binary MOF driver
mxm_wmi	MXM WMI Driver
snd_hda_intel	Intel HDA driver
snd_hda_codec	HDA codec core
nls_iso8859_1	
snd_hda_core	HD-audio bus
intel_rapl	Driver for Intel RAPL (Running Average Power Limit)
snd_hwdep	Hardware dependent layer
x86_pkg_temp_thermal	X86 PKG TEMP Thermal Driver
uvcvideo	USB Video Class driver
snd_pcm	Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
intel_powerclamp	Package Level C-state Idle Injection for Intel CPUs
coretemp	Intel Core temperature monitor
videobuf2_vmalloc	vmalloc memory handling routines for videobuf2
videobuf2_memops	common memory handling routines for videobuf2
videobuf2_v4l2	Driver helper framework for Video for Linux 2
snd_seq_midi	Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer MIDI synth.
btusb	Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.8
snd_seq_midi_event	MIDI byte <-> sequencer event coder
videobuf2_core	Media buffer core framework
btrtl	Bluetooth support for Realtek devices ver 0.1
btbcm	Bluetooth support for Broadcom devices ver 0.1
kvm_intel	
btintel	Bluetooth support for Intel devices ver 0.1
videodev	Device registrar for Video4Linux drivers v2
bluetooth	Bluetooth Core ver 2.22
snd_rawmidi	Midlevel RawMidi code for ALSA.
kvm	
snd_seq	Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
media	Device node registration for media drivers
iwlwifi	Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
snd_seq_device	ALSA sequencer device management
irqbypass	IRQ bypass manager utility module
usblp	USB Printer Device Class driver
snd_timer	ALSA timer interface
input_leds	Input -> LEDs Bridge
ecdh_generic	ECDH generic algorithm
intel_cstate	
ipmi_devintf	Linux device interface for the IPMI message handler.
intel_rapl_perf	
serio_raw	Raw serio driver
snd	Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
ipmi_msghandler	Incoming and outgoing message routing for an IPMI interface.
cfg80211	wireless configuration support
idma64	iDMA64 core driver
virt_dma	
soundcore	Core sound module
mei_me	Intel(R) Management Engine Interface
mei	Intel(R) Management Engine Interface
intel_lpss_pci	Intel LPSS PCI driver
shpchp	Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
processor_thermal_device	Processor Thermal Reporting Device Driver
intel_lpss	Intel LPSS core driver
intel_soc_dts_iosf	
intel_pch_thermal	Intel PCH Thermal driver
wmi	ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver
mac_hid	
int3400_thermal	INT3400 Thermal driver
int3403_thermal	ACPI INT3403 thermal driver
acpi_thermal_rel	Intel acpi thermal rel misc dev driver
int340x_thermal_zone	Intel INT340x common thermal zone handler
asus_wireless	Asus Wireless Radio Control Driver
acpi_pad	ACPI Processor Aggregator Driver
sch_fq_codel	
parport_pc	PC-style parallel port driver
ppdev	
lp	
parport	
ip_tables	IPv4 packet filter
x_tables	{ip,ip6,arp,eb}_tables backend module
autofs4	
btrfs	
xor	
zstd_compress	Zstd Compressor
raid6_pq	RAID6 Q-syndrome calculations
algif_skcipher	
af_alg	
dm_crypt	device-mapper target for transparent encryption / decryption
dm_mirror	device-mapper mirror target
dm_region_hash	device-mapper region hash
dm_log	device-mapper dirty region log
hid_generic	HID generic driver
usbhid	USB HID core driver
i915	Intel Graphics
crct10dif_pclmul	T10 DIF CRC calculation accelerated with PCLMULQDQ.
crc32_pclmul	
ghash_clmulni_intel	GHASH Message Digest Algorithm, acclerated by PCLMULQDQ-NI
pcbc	PCBC block cipher algorithm
aesni_intel	Rijndael (AES) Cipher Algorithm, Intel AES-NI instructions optimized
i2c_algo_bit	I2C-Bus bit-banging algorithm
aes_x86_64	Rijndael (AES) Cipher Algorithm, asm optimized
crypto_simd	
drm_kms_helper	DRM KMS helper
glue_helper	
cryptd	Software async crypto daemon
syscopyarea	Generic copyarea (sys-to-sys)
sysfillrect	Generic fill rectangle (sys-to-sys)
sysimgblt	1-bit/8-bit to 1-32 bit color expansion (sys-to-sys)
fb_sys_fops	Generic file read (fb in system RAM)
ahci	AHCI SATA low-level driver
r8169	RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver
drm	DRM shared core routines
mii	MII hardware support library
libahci	Common AHCI SATA low-level routines
video	ACPI Video Driver
i2c_hid	HID over I2C core driver
hid	
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Re: Linux Mint Host, Windows 7 Guest: Lose Keyboard Occasionally.

Post by socratis »

Korvas wrote:VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 5.2.34_Ubuntu r133883
It looks like you're using the distro's fork version of VirtualBox. You can either ask in their forums/channels for help, or completely remove/uninstall/delete/purge their version and install the official version from the Linux Downloads section of VirtualBox.

You can even add VirtualBox as a repository, so you could use your traditional install/upgrade/uninstall tools.


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Korvas wrote:I run Linux Mint as my main OS, but I have a Windows 7 guest, mostly for data analysis with Excel
Out of curiosity, wouldn't running LibreOffice natively on your Host work for you?
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Re: Linux Mint Host, Windows 7 Guest: Lose Keyboard Occasionally.

Post by Korvas »

socratis wrote:It looks like you're using the distro's fork version of VirtualBox. You can either ask in their forums/channels for help, or completely remove/uninstall/delete/purge their version and install the official version from the Linux Downloads section of VirtualBox.
Fair enough, but that's going to be more involved than I have time for at the moment. I can't afford to fiddle with a mostly-working system in the middle of a project. I'll have to try that in a week or so I guess.
Out of curiosity, wouldn't running LibreOffice natively on your Host work for you?
It seems to be sufficient for basic, personal projects thus far, but LO doesn't seem to handle Excel files quite in the same way that Excel does and, to the best of my knowledge, LO doesn't have a dedicated data analysis package. It's possible I speak from ignorance, in which case I'd welcome knowing more.
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Re: Linux Mint Host, Windows 7 Guest: Lose Keyboard Occasionally.

Post by multiOS »

The following is quite old now, so you will need to look at the current version to see what's changed:

https://documentation.libreoffice.org/a ... alysis.pdf
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