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Doing Ctrl+Alt+F1 in VirtualBox
Submitted by Bram Schoenmakers on 24 January, 2008 - 17:09.
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A common problem for people running a Linux guest on a Linux host with VirtualBox: bashing Ctrl+Alt+F1 does not have the desired effect, it switches to your first virtual terminal on your host OS while nothing happens in the guest OS. There are two ways of entering Ctrl+Alt+F1 targeting the guest OS:

  1. HostKey + F1 (where HostKey is often the right Ctrl key)
  2. First press F1, then Ctrl and then Alt. Your host OS won't pick it up but the guest OS will.

Now I've noted this down I won't forget this anymore.

thanks for the hint, was

Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on 6 May, 2009 - 10:35.

thanks for the hint, was looking for this for quite a while now.

Thanks!

Submitted by Pratik Sinha (not verified) on 26 April, 2010 - 05:04.

thanks for the hint!