Enabling arrow keys in VMware Server 2.0.1

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 at 12:57, in Linux, Ubuntu, VMware, Virtualization.

While running Ubuntu 9.10 RC in a virtual machine from a VMware Server instance, I remembered about the arrow keys and others that didn’t work quite well in the VMware Server’s console. The fix is pretty simple: edit the /etc/vmware/config file or the /etc/vmware-server-console/config file and add the following entry at the end:

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

Restart the console and everything will work as expected. There is no need to restart the server. Enjoy!

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dave said

on April 26th, 2010,

at 21:51 hours

And many thanks again!! :-)

As I can no longer find my post on “How to install VMware Server on 2.6.31 kernels” but you replied about this issue, well, thank you again. I was testing when I got you reply ;-)

Keep up the excellent work.

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Marco said

on June 28th, 2010,

at 19:39 hours

Very short and simple, the way i like it ;-)

Thanks.

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