Jaunty 64 host, VMWare XP guest - mouse/keyboard problems

[Edgars Šmits]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Yoram Hekma <hekma.yoram at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:22:58PM +0300, Edgars Šmits wrote:
>> Did an upgrade to Jaunty 2 weeks ago, everything seemed to be OK.
>> Needed XP today so I opened up VMWare Workstation (6.5.2
>> build-156735), started fine, but once XP was up and running the mouse
>> and keyboard were seriously wonky:
>>
>> 1) once mouse control is passed into the guest OS you basically can't
>> get it back into the Jaunty host w/o closing down the guest OS
>
> You could try putting the following in $HOME/.vmware/config:
>
> xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
> hint.xkeymap.notLocal = "FALSE"

Interestingly enough, I dont have a .config file in my $HOME/.vmware/ folder...

>
> In my case I needed this for the "windows key" to work, but it might help
> you as well.
>
>
> Are you using 64bit or 32bit XP? With my 32bit I have no problems and I am
> running 64bit Jaunty as well.

64 bit Jaunty host and 64 bit VMWare, 32 bit XP guest

> Can you use VirtualBox for this? I find it to be more responsive and when
> you do not need the snapshot functionality of workstation anyway, it is
> worth a try.


Yes, I'm using VirtualBox at work, like it a lot, and will probably
install it at home when I do a full reinstall with Jaunty in a week or
so.

Cheers

ED