Yesterday I installed VMware Workstation 6.5 on my fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10. After powering on a Windows XP vm, I realized that I could not use the arrow keys properly. On hitting the left arrow key, start menu was being displayed and other arrow keys had similar issues. Also, using VMware player was completely impossible as ctrl-alt-del wasn’t working.
After searching around a bit I found that many others had faced similar issue. Apparently it is not a bug with VMware Workstation. Due to some updates to Ubuntu 8.10, the keyboard mappings were screwed up. I found good amount of information in the VMware communities forum.
To fix this issue, you simply need to run the following command,
echo 'xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true' > ~/.vmware/config
and if VMware Player/Server/Workstation was running, just restart it.
You should then be good to go…
Just wat I need. Many thanks.
Yes…. Marvelously fixed my gigantic problem
Thanks
Oh god… Fixed my arrow problem but not my keyboard layout.
Not working for PT layout :/
Add the following code to your /etc/vmware/config file:
xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0×138 # Alt_R
xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0×135 # KP_Divide
xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0×11c # KP_Enter
xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0×148 # Up
xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0×150 # Down
xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0×14b # Left
xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0×14d # Right
xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0×11d # Control_R
xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0×152 # Insert
xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0×153 # Delete
xkeymap.keycode.110 = 0×147 # Home
xkeymap.keycode.115 = 0×14f # End
xkeymap.keycode.112 = 0×149 # Prior
xkeymap.keycode.117 = 0×151 # Next
xkeymap.keycode.78 = 0×46 # Scroll_Lock
xkeymap.keycode.127 = 0×100 # Pause
xkeymap.keycode.133 = 0×15b # Meta_L
xkeymap.keycode.134 = 0×15c # Meta_R
xkeymap.keycode.135 = 0×15d # Menu
Thanks Carlos but it did not fixed my keys..
ã and çá and those…
the “7″ and “/” is fine, but the “special” keys (~ç-_’`á) dont work :S
Any ideas ?
Thanx will try this!
See if it works! Iḿ on a standard US layout so things should be fine!
Yes, i think the only problem is with PT_PT
Damn-weird-hard-language
superb man… kudos
i searched high and low and your answer was simply and it worked
THANK YOU
awesome. that fixed it…
wasnt too bothered about the issue untill i needed to mess with the bios of a vm…
Thanks - I was unable to select entries in the Grub boot menu of the physical disk I assigned to a VM. Now it’s working again!
Hey Nalin!
Thank you a lot!!!
This is very useful
Thanks, it fixed my arrow keys problem on my toshiba laptop.
AltGr key not working but i can go around it by using Alt + Ctrl keys.
Thank you very much!
Fixed my problem as well.
cheers
Thanks for posting this simple fix!
This was the answer I was looking for. Simple and effective. Thanks.
This also helped me out, thanks a lot!
Great hint! In vmware sever 1.08 I had to copy the string into /etc/vmware/config for it to work, but pay attention, use the “>>” and not “>” for echo, i overwrote the entire config file and nedeed to launch vmware-config.pl to turn back ^^;
Thank you