'Keyboard not working in oracle vm virtual box

I am installing the above mentioned vm on my windows 7 system. While trying to install linux on the vm during the installation, after I press enter once and the installation begins, keyboard stops working in the vm and hence I cannot complete the installation (asks for root password and stuff).

I tried to google and find solution, but the various troubleshooting tips didn't help.

keyboard virtualbox

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Power Off the VM and change the "Video Memory" under the Display module to 128 MB. In mine, I forgot to increase it and it was just 12 MB but after increasing it to 128 MB. It worked!

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For me it worked when I followed below steps:

settings
user Interface
Input drop-down
uncheck and check again the keyboard checkbox
click OK

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I had same issue, I was able to type after right-click on textbox then clicking on "Insert Emoji"

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I solved it this way:

install the correct Extension Pack for your VirtualBox version
enable USB 3 in your VM
close all VirtualBox instances
open a shell and run

VBoxManage setextradata "$NAME" VBoxInternal2/EfiGraphicsResolution X

where $NAME is the name of your VM.

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PS: the source is for Windows, but I'm on Ubuntu and it works as well

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I also got this kind of problem on MacOs as host and installing Ubuntu as guest. I think that increasing the available RAM to the VM did the trick (I had only 1GB at the beginning and I set it to 4GB).

Hope this helps

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I wasted a lot of time in solving this. my mouse and keyboard both were not working and I was installing MacOS Mojave on virtual Box on Linux. All you need to install is Virtual Box Extention pack from their official website-> double click and install it -> then from settings->USB-> select USB-3. restart the OS and this should be it. for more info follow this nice doc: http://www.professionaltutorial.com/install-macos-mojave-virtualbox-windows/

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For anyone coming here in 2020 and installing Virtual Box for the first time. If you have Windows 10 as the Host-System you have to disable all the Hyper-V Stuff. The Problem might not be that the Keyboard and Mouse don't work and instead this could be the Problem. The System runs really slow and then just stops without crashing.

Referencing Virtual Box Support https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=93800

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(I'm using Windows 10 as host and Ubuntu as guest) I solved it this way:

Downloaded the older version of VirtualBox (My keyboard did not work in VB 6.1.12, after reading some posts I downloaded VB 6.1.10)
Increase Memory Size(Ram) to 2048 MB (default size is 1024 MB)
Keyboard works!

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I have experienced this on various builds of Ubuntu (Ubuntu being the host system) - the fix is to disable screensaver/lockout on the host. Hope it works for you!

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in windows 10 laptop.

Increasing Video Memory did not work for me. Increasing System Ram worked.

and changed my pointing device to multi touch input.

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I tried all of the above to no avail. The host had been up a long time and had run several VMs. So I rebooted the host machine and restarted VirtualBox. After that the keyboard worked properly.

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Fixed this problem:

1. Click `apple` logo, select "`System Preferences`";

2. Chose "`Security & Privacy`", click "`Privacy`";

3. Click your locked `lock` logo, just input your Mac password, 

4. Add "`VirtualBox App`" to "`Accessibility`" and “Input Monitoring”. 

5. Then, restart mac.

Solution 13:^[13]

you can check for the selection of pointing device.you migh have selected a wrong pointing device

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Solution	Source
Solution 1	Neel
Solution 2	Fabulous
Solution 3	TsunamiCha
Solution 4	Marco Sulla
Solution 5	Vincent Pazeller
Solution 6	patel dhruval
Solution 7	Stefan Stay
Solution 8	seekerJackson
Solution 9	steve
Solution 10	Mohan Kirupasankar
Solution 11	Den-Jason
Solution 12	Vittore Marcas
Solution 13	Rohit Dwivedi

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