ipunct » VMWare http://www.ipunct.net IT-Lösungen auf den Punkt gebracht Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:37:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 (Arrow) keys are not working in VMWare guest http://www.ipunct.net/blog/2009/05/arrow-keys-are-not-working-in-vmware-guest/ http://www.ipunct.net/blog/2009/05/arrow-keys-are-not-working-in-vmware-guest/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 13:41:17 +0000 Mario Rasser http://blog.ipunct.net/?p=43 We had problems within some keys like Arrow, Up, Down etc. in the Guest OS running on a Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 running VMWare Server 2.0. The keymapping between host and guest is broken. That could be fixed with the following entries in ~/.vmware/config (create the file if it is not existing). The file is located in the home of the user that runs ther VMWare Console, e.g. from the VMWare Infrastructure Web Access environment.

xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R
xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide
xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter
xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up
xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down
xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0x14b # Left
xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0x14d # Right
xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0x11d # Control_R
xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0x152 # Insert
xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0x153 # Delete
xkeymap.keycode.110 = 0x147 # Home
xkeymap.keycode.115 = 0x14f # End
xkeymap.keycode.112 = 0x149 # Prior
xkeymap.keycode.117 = 0x151 # Next
xkeymap.keycode.78 = 0x46 # Scroll_Lock
xkeymap.keycode.127 = 0x100 # Pause
xkeymap.keycode.133 = 0x15b # Meta_L
xkeymap.keycode.134 = 0x15c # Meta_R
xkeymap.keycode.135 = 0x15d # Menu

Restart the guest virtual machine and the keymapping works as it should.
The solution was found in the mentioned reference.

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]]> http://www.ipunct.net/blog/2009/05/arrow-keys-are-not-working-in-vmware-guest/feed/ 0 Install VMWare Tools on Ubuntu Server http://www.ipunct.net/blog/2009/04/install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-server/ http://www.ipunct.net/blog/2009/04/install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-server/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:02:12 +0000 Mario Rasser http://blog.ipunct.net/?p=34 How to install VMWare Tools on Ubuntu (tested on Ubuntu 8.10 and 8.04 LTS) in a rush:

  • Within your VMWare Infrastructure Client or WebGUI do a “Install VMWare Tools”
  • VMWare will provide a ISO Image with the VMWare Tools to the Virtual Machine
  • SSH to the Ubuntu Server you want the VMWare Tools be installed
  • OPTIONAL but prefered: 
    sudo su -
aptitude update
aptitude full-upgrade
  • do the following steps as root or prefix a sudo: 
    aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
mount /dev/cdrom
cd /media/cdrom0/
cp VMwareTools-2.0.0-122956.tar.gz /usr/src/
cd /usr/src/
tar xfzv VMwareTools-2.0.0-122956.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib/
./vmware-install.pl
# answer the question via defaults
init 6
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