Hello,
my guest OS does not receive my multimedia keyboard key signal, is it normal?
When I press on volume + or volume - my guest OS receive nothing.
Virtualbox does not transmit all the signal of my keyboard from the host to the guest?
Thank you for your help.
virtualbox and multimedia keyboard
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legluondunet
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socratis
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Re: virtualbox and multimedia keyboard
Multimedia keyboards are not the same as the typical old PS/2 keyboard. VirtualBox emulates the latter, so you won't see any of your multimedia keys passed on to the guest.
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legluondunet
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Re: virtualbox and multimedia keyboard
thank you for your answer.
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MPerz
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Re: virtualbox and multimedia keyboard
You can try creating a USB filter to pass the keyboard to the VM directly. Keep in mind - and this is very important - that you would have to have a separate keyboard attached to your host, because the host would no longer receive inputs from it while the VM is running.