I start and stop my VM headless style.StartVBoxHeadless -s Windows -v on -e TCP/Address=0.0.0.0 -e TCP/Ports=3389 StopVBoxManage  controlvm Windows poweroffAnd I connect to it using the rdesktop protocol that VirtualBox natively supports. rdesktop-vrdp localhost:3389However after my kernel was forcefully upgraded for me today, I had to also upgrade my Virtualbox installation from VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.8_75467_fedora16-1.i686.rpm to VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.6_82870_fedora16-1.i686.rpm and after doing so, found myself unable to use arrow keys, control keys, page-up, page-down, etc, in my rdesktop-vrdp VM window. So the problem is: control/alt/arrow/etc keys not working in rdesktop-vrdp. 
Certain keys (arrows, page-up, page-down) not working in rdesktop-vrdp
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