Hi Japheth,

> Both problems with the keyboard and the mouse are known and were
> already posted in this list. However, the posts were related to Qemu
> ... Since VirtualBox is - to a large degree - a clone of Qemu...

> There exist workarounds. The Ctmouse problem can be cured by using
> a certain cmdline switch.

The one to disable the wheel detection I guess? Because
Mateusz wrote that 1.9 works while 2.1 (and maybe 2.0?)
does not work and produces unwanted cursor movements.

> The keyboard problem can possibly be solved if you use another
> keyboard driver which doesn't install an IRQ 1 handler but hooks
> int 15h instead (I wrote one for German keyboards...

Tom Ehlert wrote a driver called MKEYB which is, as far as
I remember, int 15h based and supports at least 10 common
keyboard layouts, all compiled in. A small driver, too :-).

Eric

PS: I prefer Dosemu (fast!) anyway, but better Bochs and Qemu
and Virtualbox compatibility is always something to check for.


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