Curses, right?!ġ- Work-around for Win7( and other) VMs, (so long as it's not the pithy 'Home' edition.) :Ī) Enable RDP in the VM then shut it down.ī) Don't launch Virtualbox from /Applications. If I bring it up and sleep my mac with it running, the guest VM will pooch my USB keyboard and trackpad from the host. Well, I found some other reproducible points:ġ- this also works with my Debian-8.1.0-amd64 VM. (Something I never worried about with VMwareFusion.)Īnd yes, sometimes I don't get them all, or sometimes I forget, which means I need to remote my mac and somehow get it to take my local input again. My only 'workaround' for this is to shut down all my client VMs before I close the lid on my macbook. It works SOMETIMES but not always a VM sometimes grabs that as well.Īnyway, the only way I've found to re-gain access once it's in this state is to remote control the mac, either via VNCViewer or TeamViewer - and in both cases I'm hoping my MBP made its way onto the network, and that I have another machine available with which to remote my stuck mac.Īlso, I have to do this quickly, because a Mac waiting for a password and not getting one within a few seconds will just go back to sleep :/ Once I figured out it was a VM Guest grabbing my only input devices when it shouldn't be, I tried connecting an external keyboard. Restart the whole mac, lose the state of everything. The first few times (until I figured out what was going on) I had to hold the power button down. Since the VM (paused or otherwise) captures the USB device that is my trackpad/keyboard, I have no way to input my password. Since I need a password to log in when I open the lid, I need a way to TYPE that password. I can't even gain console access to my Mac. Just quitting the guest would give back control to your Mac. This issue is repeatable on my new MBP, my old macbook air, and my late-2012 mbp, and occurs with any win7, win8.1 or win10 vm I run on it. Scoured manual, and didn't see the answer in the forums.

I am unable to find a setting to tell VBox to leave my damn USB devices alone, nor am I able to craft an EXCLUSION filter for this USB device, so I can keep local control of my host. The PAUSED VM had captured the same USB device while my mac slept. Next day, I wised up and 'paused' the Win7 VM and packed up and went home.

Same fix, team viewer to uncheck the captured USB device from the Win7 VM. I removed all USB filters and restarted VBox and mv VM. I un-checked this, and re-gained local control over my VBox host. I installed TeamViewer and the next time it happened, I noted that my Win7 vm had captured the USB device on my MBP called 'Apple Inc Apple Internal Kebyoard / Trackpad ' Whenever I close my MBP and head home for the day and reopen it, I can't type or use the trackpad.

Mouse not working after sleep