Anyone know of a way to remap VB's Cmd-R hotkey that resets a virtual machine? This is the same hotkey that redisplays a web page in OS X browsers and so of course I have on several occasions reset my VM in the midst of browsing in an Ubuntu guest. I've tried redefining the Reset menu item using a keyboard shortcuts via the Keyboards System Preference pane, but no joy. Ideas appreciated.
TexLogic
Remap Cmd-r?
Re: Remap Cmd-r?
This is really annoying - and I'm surprised it's not been answered in the last 4 years!
Is there no way to remap CMD-R?
Is there no way to remap CMD-R?
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Ramshankar
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Re: Remap Cmd-r?
File->preferences (or on Mac it's probably VirtualBox->Preferences).
Then go to the "Input" tab and "Virtual Machine" pane and you should be able to find "Reset" there and rebind it.
Then go to the "Input" tab and "Virtual Machine" pane and you should be able to find "Reset" there and rebind it.
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ChipMcK
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Re: Remap Cmd-r?
Ramshankar wrote:File->preferences (or on Mac it's probably VirtualBox->Preferences).
Then go to the "Input" tab and "Virtual Machine" pane and you should be able to find "Reset" there and rebind it.
v4.2.16 level of VBoxallows for OSX - Preferences reassigns just the host key
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Ramshankar
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Re: Remap Cmd-r?
I think it should be possible to rebind the key in VBox 4.2.x using VBoxManage setextradata <vm> GUI/Input/MachineShortcuts. I don't remember what the host key combination on OS X is, I'll have to try it before providing the command.
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Re: Remap Cmd-r?
Indeed it is in there - my mistake was to quickly look at the VBox Mgr settings panel, which looks a little like it.Ramshankar wrote:File->preferences (or on Mac it's probably VirtualBox->Preferences).
Then go to the "Input" tab and "Virtual Machine" pane and you should be able to find "Reset" there and rebind it.
Hallelujah - and I'm an atheist - now I finally can do my web work without resetting my entire environment. Thank you all!ChipMcK wrote: v4.2.16 level of VBoxallows for OSX - Preferences reassigns just the host key.
However, under VirtualBox 4.3 Beta 1 bunches of keys may be remapped