It should be noted that not only can this occur with older virtualized Operating Systems but it also can occur when newer Operating Systems are booting up and have not fully loaded, such as for example at grub screens. Pressing capture in the dialog below will capture the mouse and keyboard and the Host Operating System will no longer have access to them. The virtual operating system in this case does not know that it is not running inside another OS and expects to have complete control over your keyboard and mouse when the virtual machine window is clicked.Īs a result upon clicking the VM, the Host Operating Systems loses control of the mouse and or keyboard, and VirtualBox by default will display the pop-up dialog below. However, in some cases particularly with older Operating Systems, the virtual machine can capture the mouse and or keyboard making them unavailable to the Host Operating System and other applications running on the Host. Once one has installed a guest Operating System in VirtualBox, mouse and keyboard events should be communicated to the guest OS when the focus is on the virtual machine window. Install VirtualBox 6.1 (latest version at the time of writing). deb focal contribĭownload and add the public keys for the new repo: wget -q -O- | sudo apt-key add. Then add the following text and save the file.

Using an editor of your choice (here I’ll use Vi Improved), with elevated (sudo) permissions. Only use this method if you need the latest stable features and/or you need to mitigate issue(s) that are addressed in more recent versions.Ĭreate a new repo source list file. NOTE At the time of writing, the latest version was 6.1.16.

This method will install the latest stable version of Virtualbox. This is the Bodhi community-supported approach. This method will install Virtualbox 5.2.x from the Bodhi Linux Repo. Method 1: Using official Bodhi Linux Repositories Note, a kernel module is started when Bodhi is booted, but nothing happens until you manually start a virtual machine.

Once complete, unless you have altered your menu, VirtualBox can be run from the menu Applications→Accessories→VirtualBox. Open your terminal of choice, select one of the two methods below and run the commands stated, typing your password as prompted:

Virtualbox host key capture