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How to disable Keyboard Shortcuts in VirtualBox?
Posted: 30. Jan 2010, 10:57
by concoran
Is there a way to disable shortcuts in VirtualBox? I am especially interested in disabling Host+H (ACPI Shutdown) as I accidentally shut my guest down.
Re: How to disable Keyboard Shortcuts in VirtualBox?
Posted: 30. Jan 2010, 16:33
by Perryg
The only thing that I know you can do is switch the host key to something else. This is done in the preferences -> input, of the main VBox program GUI.
Re: How to disable Keyboard Shortcuts in VirtualBox?
Posted: 31. Jan 2010, 02:13
by MarkCranness
You could try configuring your Windows 7 guest to ignore the Power Button.
On Windows XP, this is Control Panel>Power Options>Advanced>Power Buttons..., I'm not sure what it would be in Windows 7.
From looking at the VirtualBox OSE source code, it does not seem possible to disable Home+H or change the shortcut key used.
Re: How to disable Keyboard Shortcuts in VirtualBox?
Posted: 16. Nov 2010, 00:52
by denversc
Note that you can set the host key to "None", effectively disabling all of the keyboard shortcuts.
Go to File -> Preferences -> Input and click the red "X" beside "Host Key" to set it to "None".