How to stop keyboard repeat on VirtualBox

Question

I have been using Citrix to remote into a Windows 7 machine that's running Ubuntu in VirtualBox. The issue I ran into was repeated characters all over the place. I tried a few things but the following is what worked for me:

Answer 1

On your virtual machine (guest) type xset r off

This will turn off repeat.

Answer 2

This post helped me today, but I had to use a variation. If you only have terminal/console (no desktop environment) on the VM, try this:

setterm -repeat off