VMware Player / Workstation Keyboard Mapping Problem

After switching from Debian Unstable to Kubuntu 8.10 I reinstalled my VMware Player 2.5.1 and started my Windows XP virtual machine. Soon I found that most of the keys near the numeric pad (del, home, right enter, etc) are either not working at all or doing wrong things. The obvious reason was some wrong keyboard mappings.

Solution:

$ echo 'xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true' > ~/.vmware/config

or if the config already exists

$ echo 'xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true' >> ~/.vmware/config

More info here

Comments

Comment by Dmitriy on 2009-01-22 17:14:05 +0300

Thanks man!
Really helped on Fedora 10 x64, just instead of config there are ‘preferences’
$ echo ‘xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ » ~/.vmware/preferences