Typing in virtualbox during installation does not work

[ruud]

I tried to install Ubuntu 19.10, 20.04 and 18.04.4LTS in virtualbox 6.1 on MacOS Catalina. The installating packages starts, the mouse works, so I can navigate all the way through to the user account creation screen. However, I cannot input anything using the keyboard. I can drag the dialogue text into the text fields but not delete/add by typing into the field. All keyboard input is ignored. I use the standards laptop keyboard of the mac which otherwise works fine. Since it fails in all versions specified above it is likely to be related to the combination of VirtualBox, MacOS and the ubuntu installe package.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I suspect a Support site would be more appropriate, eg. for Ubuntu you can use https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu. You can also find help with your problem in the support forum of your local Ubuntu community http://loco.ubuntu.com/ or asking at https://askubuntu.com or https://ubuntuforums.org, or for more support options please look at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-support/709

Please note your issue I suspect relates to configuration/settings on your HOST OS which will be off-topic on many Ubuntu sites.

The fact that it impacts all ISOs you mention also increases weight on it the common cause, possibly your vbox config/settings.