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As the subject says: the num lock status in my Windows 7 guest is the opposite of the status on the host. This is on a fresh install: I just created a Windows 7 32-bit VM with all default settings & installed the OS.

Host: Windows 8.1 Professional 64-bit
Guest: Windows 7 SP1 Starter 32-bit
VirtualBox: 4.3.8 r92456

The log looks completely normal.

Has anyone else encountered this before? If not, how can I debug this issue & find out where the problem (host, guest, VirtualBox itself) is?

Thanks, Anthony

According to the changelog for version 4.3.8, it's a newly added, experimental feature:

GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see Section 9.27, “Support for keyboard indicators synchronization”

You have to manually enable it, per VM.

Thanks, that works perfectly indeed.

This also led me to realize that without the feature, changing Num Lock in the guest switches both guest & host status. On the contrary, changing Num Lock on the host only switches host status. So if you just want to enable Num Lock on both: first enable it in the guest, then, if required, enable it again on the host.