Teamviewer and Virtualbox issue: some keys don't work

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Published on 2012-08-16T16:33:59Z Indexed on 2012/09/28 15:41 UTC
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I use Teamviewer on a laptop to connect to a desktop computer running Debian Linux. On this desktop computer I run Windows inside a VirtualBox VM. I have no problems interacting directly with Linux, but when I try to interact with Windows inside Virtualbox, some keys simply don't work! (e.g. period, "@", quotes).

Is there something I can do to make the full keyboard of my laptop work correctly with the Virtualbox VM inside the remote host?

Specs:

The remote host machine is an Intel i7 running Debian squeezy (64 bit)
I'm using Teamviewer 7, on both the host machine and the laptop

Thanks

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