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…

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So, I ditched the native ubuntu Network Manager and installed wicd which is another open source network manager that works with Ubuntu. But after configuring wicd with the static IP, I had another problem. Everytime I restarted the machine, I had to manually start the wicd network manager. Instead of trying anything more with wicd, I decided to ditch a network manager altogether and just configure the files myself.

So, to get the network working with static IP, first remove the network manager (Many people have said that it is not necessary, but I prefer to remove it as I wont be using it anyway):

sudo apt-get remove --purge network-manager

Then modify the /etc/resolv.conf with the dns servers and domain names:

search foo.bar.com bar.com
nameserver 192.168.0.1
nameserver 192.168.0.2

Now, modify /etc/network/interfaces and add

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.10
netmask 255.255.252.0
gateway 192.168.0.253

Now, just restart the networking:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Obviously, you should figure out the netmask, gateway and name servers before you start these steps.

This is all that you need to do to configure the machine with a static IP.

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1. cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
2. cp vmmon.tar vmmon.tar.orig
3. sudo tar xvf vmmon.tar
4. cd vmmon-only/include/
5. sudo vi vcpuset.h
6. change line 74 from: #include “asm/bitops.h” to: #include “linux/bitops.h”
7. rm vmmon.tar (return to the folder where you decompressed the tar file)
8. sudo tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only/
9. sudo rm -rf vmmon-only/
10. sudo vmware-config.pl

To save you some time, I have uploaded the fixed vmmon.tar, that you can use to replace the original with. Just untar the vmplayer package, download vmmon.tar and cp it to <vmplayer_installer_dir>/lib/modules/source/ and then start the installation process.

This same process should work for VMware Server and Workstation as well.

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