My keyboard and mouse do not respond to me. How can I get them back?

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If you click inside the console window of the Virtual Machine and the keyboard and mouse get "grabbed" in the window, then to release them, you have to press the Host Key (Right Ctrl) or (Right Cmd in Mac OS X). You can check which is the Host Key by clicking in: File->Preferences->Input

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My keyboard and mouse do not respond to me. How can I get them back?