Andrejs Cainikovs blog

After new release of Virtualbox was installed and my virtual machine with OpenSUSE on-board had started, I’ve ended up with a dead keyboard. It worked fine on host Windows XP, but OpenSUSE VM was acting like there is no keyboard at all. Couple of minutes of brain activity and finger work I’ve found that /etc/X11/xorg.conf was replaced during Virtualbox Guest Additions update. Comparing xorg.conf between two latest VB releases, I was able to get the keyboard working. Here is a fix:

xorg.conf diff

1. Restore old xorg.conf : cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak /etc/X11/xorg.conf
2. Add Option "CoreKeyboard" to InputDevice section of Keyboard[0]
3. Add Option "CorePointer" to InputDevice section of Mouse[1]
4. Add Option "SendCoreEvents" to InputDevice section of Mouse[2]
5. Rename Device option from InputDevice section of Mouse[2] from /dev/vboxadd to /dev/vboxguest

A screenshot for your pleasure!