just to le tyou know  there is a nice microsoft keyboard that comes with a 
driver cd that actually makes the comand and option keys work the way they are 
supposed to. it that should I suspect also fix the vm issues at least with the 
windows and alt keys  I don't kow how tht would effect the other keys butit's a 
nice keyboard  a high end wireless not buetooth modem I'll get the info if you 
are interested, assuming it can be read from the keyboard as I no longer have 
thebox

On Jan 10, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Zachary Kline wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm running into a minor snag in trying to get a virtual machine up and 
> running.  There seems to be some quirk in the Mac system which prevents the 
> capslock key from being virtualized properly.  I've encountered this problem 
> both with VirtualBox and the newly installed VmWare Fusion.  
> So I'm wondering if it wouldn't be too strange to use a full-sized keyboard 
> with this Macbook?  The problem is that a lot of both Linux and Windows 
> screen readers use capslock as a modifier, and I don't have a numeric keypad 
> on this machine, or any way to get around the emulation issue.  
> Alternate solutions would be welcome, as the keyboard will probably add 
> considerably to the bulk of the whole system, not that it's particularly 
> large at the moment.
> Best and thanks in advance for any thoughts,
> Zack.
> 
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