John,
That is not the sole cause.
My VM has been started, was working fine. "Suddenly" the caps lock problem manifested itself. And, of course, I work for an extended period in either one or the other, so it's not immediately evident what I did differently.
Short of rebooting the guest OS (not an acceptable workaround)... how do I resolve this?
Per the note above (Sorry, can't nav to it while typing this message to provide credit to the poster), start an Office application, preferably Word (or Outlook with Word as the editor may work as well), and type into it in whatever mode gives all caps. I typed "TEST" and hit space, now they're back in sync.
Since, on my regular PC, this changes the state of the CAPS light, seems PD3/4 (did this on PD3 too), is not capturing and managing the software-switching of the CAPS lock key state back to the host OS.
OSx 10.5.6, PD4, XP SP2 is guest OS.
Last edited: Jan 29, 2009