Keyboard in virtual CentOS 7.7 stops responding or gives extra characters
Posted: 2020/04/24 20:47:58
I'm running Qemu on a Windows 10 laptop. Can't run Virtualbox because I'm not admin. Sometimes after I switch away and back to the VM the keyboard isn't recognized or I get things like ^[A ^[B... I immediately thought of the escape key but my keyboard works normally in Windows.
The only way to fix this is to reset/reboot the VM. Maybe next time I will try "clear" or "reset". However, when this happens I try to switch to another session (Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc) but I can't log in because I'm getting these extra characters.
If it matters I'm running CentOS 7.7 i386 (Alt Arch) for better performance under Windows x86_64. And this is in a text terminal since GUI is painfully slow.
I'm using this set up to learn PHP + MySQL.
I have no idea what causes this.
The only way to fix this is to reset/reboot the VM. Maybe next time I will try "clear" or "reset". However, when this happens I try to switch to another session (Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc) but I can't log in because I'm getting these extra characters.
If it matters I'm running CentOS 7.7 i386 (Alt Arch) for better performance under Windows x86_64. And this is in a text terminal since GUI is painfully slow.
I'm using this set up to learn PHP + MySQL.
I have no idea what causes this.