Friday, August 28, 2009

VMware player - the ultimate hotkey destroyer

I've encountered very annoying issue while using VMware player - all my Linux hotkeys were suddenly dropped out when vmplayer was launched. I couldn't even open a new tab in Firefox until i execute setxkbmap command.
After searching on google and investigating different options for virtual machine i've found combination that particially solved problem.
<Win XP>.vmx file
  • isolation.tools.dnd.disable = "TRUE"
  • isolation.tools.copy.disable = "TRUE"
  • isolation.tools.paste.disable = "TRUE"
  • mks.keyboardFilter = "off"
Now it seems to work... but i cannot copy from host OS to hosted OS, which is kind of a pity :)