From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Na8SW-0000LL-Fg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:01:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14874E0AAC for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:01:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1971AE09F5 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so4080558pwj.26 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:02:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=mxCi6rDOVuR+6MN4xT2dPo6meFgvuq187zvIOXItqyg=; b=OSmZ5k4cpev24Q6mqUzDdLa/ydurUlmnFOvX06j3OaPXtqTsjvW14qtzCtKl/ipSAv EjMURA8MTET4mpDTrJOIF7xEOcHyrYP2MbtbeSRQ74I9ByVCM9XAn1R74DcuVhmp+T4g yBBqZ4VFixF/sunHLbglq+vz7gVQzapEaXNBo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=bUcaJVbpOSOkC8O9FaX48NqsEjyM8Ej8BpL1qk5jUYk7QwmBqAU7uSvJVM7FV8IOCF YAQbYbbF8ZngxMIqitwxUZA/vnHChJyzP10YHbdj+aRO1dHpwk75sWw+HGwEsG2ObFQf breTnAr+tDdDwGsxvfI9qJdpr07Gf/OZZn2zM= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.75.6 with SMTP id x6mr6475431wfa.72.1264597329571; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:02:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100127105552.1d42c5cf@marcec.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de> References: <5bdc1c8b1001261155p400fd174nc90742c8fe2e5da3@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1001261611q5dc0f426ued2c1ab7e75e897b@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1001261623k2291db8ct4cde3249646f000b@mail.gmail.com> <20100127105552.1d42c5cf@marcec.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:02:09 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1001270502x3c1a0593y82f22c8ce915887b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 76174061-8bff-43a7-9951-351f10bf4c6c X-Archives-Hash: 218b3c9e817991b00c4caeb04ef12b5b On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:23:20 -0800 > schrieb Mark Knecht : > >> Completely off topic but what's the trick to free my mouse and >> keyboard from the Vbox prison they seem to be in? I had to come to >> another computer to send this message! > > By default you have to press the right Ctrl button; the exact button you have > to press is displayed at the bottom right of the Virtualbox window. Doesn't > Virtualbox tell you what to press when you first click into a guest window > (unless you deactivate the popup)? After you install the guest additions you > won't have to worry about that anymore though, since moving the cursor past the > edge of windows' desktop boundaries releases it automatically. > >> Cheers >> Mark > > HTH > -- > Marc Joliet It did tell me but I had dismissed it - not deactivated it - and at the time was in a long SP3 update and couldn't restart it. I kept reading it as the Ctrl + right mouse button and just didn't get it. I managed to get out by downloading the user's manual on another computer which had the instructions. Thanks, Mark