Re: Various Questions About Boxes

[Gerald Nunn <gerald b nunn gmail com>]

VirtualBox releases both the mouse and keyboard when you press the host key (right ctrl) so the next keystroke goes to the host making it easy to switch. AFAIK Qemu only releases the mouse and with a full screen VM that's not very useful.

Also, in VirtualBox I find if I turn Auto-Capture off I can click into the VM and the VM window that has focus responds however meta-keys such as the Windows key, ctrl-alt-arrow, etc go to the host which makes switching between things very convenient. 

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau redhat com> wrote:

Hey,

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:57:29AM -0600, Gerald Nunn wrote:
> b. Not strictly a boxes question but is there any way to get qemu to not
> capture specific keys? I'd like the keys to change gnome workspaces to
> always go to the host to make it easy to switch between guest and host. If
> no, how do most people handle easily switching between host and guest?

Nope, this is not possible at the moment. Out of curiosity, how does
that work in VirtualBox?

Christophe