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

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My problem is that the arrow keys do not work in the XP 
Guest. Jaunty 64/ VMW 64-bit/32-bit XP guest

Yoram Hekma wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:03:59PM +0300, Edgars Šmits wrote:
>> 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...
> 
> Well, you could just create a file I guess. Although I do not think it will
> help with the responsiveness of you mouse.
> 
>>> 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
> 
> Same as me and I do not experience any problems. Do you have any
> virtualization options disabled in your computer's BIOS? Shouldn't make
> that much of a difference, but I am just wondering.
> 
>>> 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