Fedora + VMWare Workstation 6.5.1 = keyboard mapping troubles

December 16, 2008 | Categories: Linux, Technical | Tags: config, keyboard, vmware, vmware workstation No Comments ↓

In this post, I outlined the needed changes in order to get VMWare Workstation to behave properly with the keyboard under Gnome.Â I recently came across an easier solution: Simply place the following line in the .vmware/config file: xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

Fedora (with Gnome) and VMWare Workstation 6.5 = keyboard trouble

November 19, 2008 | Categories: Linux, Technical, Windows | Tags: arrow keys, fubar keyboard, keyboard, vmware, vmware workstation 2 Comments ↓

This didn’t happen for me with previous versions of Fedora or previous version of VMWare Workstation, but it seems to have happened to others at varying times.Â This problem came about for me when I upgraded to Fedora 10 (I had already been using VMWare Workstation 6.5 with no issues). I have Windows XP running