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(Arrow) keys are not working in VMWare guest
06.05.2009
von Mario Rasser
von Mario Rasser
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
Install VMWare Tools on Ubuntu Server
28.04.2009
von Mario Rasser
von Mario Rasser
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