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* Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP
  @ 2010-01-27 13:02 99%         ` Mark Knecht
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From: Mark Knecht @ 2010-01-27 13:02 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-amd64

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:23:20 -0800
> schrieb Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>:
>
>> 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



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