If you are migrating a VMware Workstation 2 disk to VMware Workstation 4 and your guest operating system is Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 98 or Windows 95, you need to configure the video driver by hand. Instructions open automatically in Notepad at the end of the installation process. Aug 23, 2018 The driver is installed in my host, and does hook into the standard keyboard driver chain. This does sound a little scary to me, knowing Microsoft's habit to change Windows internals at will and not caring too much wether competing products are broken or not. So if the driver doesn't do any good for me, I'd rather not install it.
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Active6 years, 11 months ago
I have VMWare-Workstation 8.0.0 build-471780.
My host OS is Windows 7 Ultimate, SP1.My guest OS is CentOS 6.0.
I have following keyboard issues:
1. When I press a key on guest OS (for example Enter) it repeats 2-10 times. It happens to all the keys. When I press a key very quickly - multiple enter doesn't occur.
2. At a random time guest OS stops receiving events from the keyboard. I was typing and at the next moment the keyboard just stopped working. The mouse was fine and all I could do - restart guest OS. And it happens all the time, the keyboard stops working at random moments.
I tried to find solution to the first issue. I have installed keyboard drivers - didn't help. I have also installed VMWare Tools 8.8.0, build 471268 - didn't help. I have also read an article from WMVare community that suggests to check if guest OS time is moving ahead of host OS - but it isn't.
How could I fix those solutions?
My host OS is Windows 7 Ultimate, SP1.My guest OS is CentOS 6.0.
I have following keyboard issues:
1. When I press a key on guest OS (for example Enter) it repeats 2-10 times. It happens to all the keys. When I press a key very quickly - multiple enter doesn't occur.
2. At a random time guest OS stops receiving events from the keyboard. I was typing and at the next moment the keyboard just stopped working. The mouse was fine and all I could do - restart guest OS. And it happens all the time, the keyboard stops working at random moments.
I tried to find solution to the first issue. I have installed keyboard drivers - didn't help. I have also installed VMWare Tools 8.8.0, build 471268 - didn't help. I have also read an article from WMVare community that suggests to check if guest OS time is moving ahead of host OS - but it isn't.
How could I fix those solutions?
don_pardondon_pardon
1 Answer
Here is a solution to the issue 1: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=196
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I am trying to migrate my Windows 10 machine into a virtual machine which I can run under Ubuntu 16.04 which is my preferred OS. I used VMware vCenter Convertor to move all my files and the OS into vmx format so that I can open it from VMware player under Ubuntu.
But once I run the virtual machine under Ubuntu I find that the keyboard input is not recognised and I am not able to install/update the VMware Tools as most of the sites on the internet suggest. The 'Install VMware Tools...' option under the 'Virtual Machine' menu is totally greyed out. The screen resolution is also poor plus it does not take up the entire screen when I set it to full screen. I think all of this will probably be related to not having the VMware tools not being installed. But how do I install it?
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I want to add that I am running the latest version (12.5.5 build-5234757) of VMware downloaded from the official site. Also, mouse input seems to work just fine and I am able to navigate around using the on-screen keyboard without any problem at all/
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Wondering your windows 10 machine was a Lenovo? If that is the case this answer might work for you. There is an issue with lenovo drivers on some VMs. I had an issue with this and the work around wasn't pretty.
Start the machine, and use the screen keyboard to log in. Allow the device to accept Remote access.
RDP into the machine, keyboard will then work. In my application this is what it was intended for anyway, so further work wasn't needed.
From there you would be able to update drivers, and install the Guest tools. I normally only see guest tools greyed out if you don't have a cd drive option on the VM.
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I too just experienced this problem after virtualizing my Lenovo X1 Carbon running Windows 10. Booting up the VM under Linux and the keyboard was unresponsive.
My fix was to logon using the on screen display as suggested then going into device mangager and go to view / show hidden devices.
Then I deleted every entry under keyboards. After a reboot the vmware ps/2 keyboard started working again. No need to use RDP as above answer suggests.
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