Problem solved! It turns out that TAB was previously bound to address completion in vm running with bbdb, but with VM 8 that doesn't work anymore. I see in the documentation that the default binding is now M-TAB. That worked once I turned M-TAB off as a keyboard shortcut in Gnome.
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