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I've noticed that when in my XP guest, my Belkin KVM seems to be causing the "Alt" key to fire every thirty seconds.

When I used XP natively with the KVM, that behavior did not occur.

Has anybody experienced this or have any ideas?

It might be that the KVM gets detected as a usb device, or bad grounding on the kvm box. Are you using usb leads from the central connection to the Host?

Why yes, it is connected via USB. I should have mentioned that, I suppose.

From the KVM to the managed units, it's USB connections. From the KVM to the keyboard and mouse, it's PS2 connectors.

Well, it turns out that I had the USB controller disabled in the guest VM configuration, so I don't think it's a matter of both the host and the guest trying to grab the USB KVM.

I've decided this issue is not related to VirtualBox.

I noticed that my host OS xscreensaver password prompt activates every thirty seconds when no keys are pressed. That leads me to believe this is a OpenSolaris/KVM problem and not a VirtualBox problem.