How can I send keyboard information with vboxmanage?

1 year ago
Emily Johnson
1 minute

The VBoxManage command-line tool can be used to send keyboard information through the following steps:

  1. Open the terminal or command prompt window.
  2. Navigate to the installation directory of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Enter the following command in the terminal or command prompt window:
  3. Navigate to the installation directory of VirtualBox.
  4. Send keyboard information using the following command:
  5. Enter the scancode for the keyboard in the virtual machine named <虚拟机名称> using VBoxManage.
  6. The is the name of your virtual machine, while is the keyboard scan code to be sent.
  7. You can use this website to look up keyboard scan codes.

For example, if you want to send the Enter key keyboard information to a virtual machine named “myvm”, you can use the following command:

VBoxManage controlvm myvm keyboardputscancode 1c
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