In this post, I outlined the needed changes in order to get VMWare Workstation to behave properly with the keyboard under Gnome. I recently came across an easier solution: Simply place the following line in the .vmware/config file: xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
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. 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
After an upgrade to Fedora 10, VMware Workstation 6.5.0 would not run. The kernel modules, as expected, needed to be compiled, but the only one that would not compile was the vmmon kernel module. Attempting to run vmware-modconfig resulted in a segfault, and attempting to compile the modules manually (as suggested in one of the