pythonscript
June 25th, 2009, 06:21 PM
I'm running vmware workstation 6.5 on ubuntu jaunty as the guest and host (don't ask me why, I use the virtual machine for creating live CD's with specific software configurations, and this way, I don't have to keep changing my system every time). However, I'm having a problem with my keyboard typing when I don't want it to... as in, I open up a terminal, firefox, whatever, in the guest, and it suddenly starts typing one letter (different every time) like the key is being pressed down. Ctrl+Alt doesn't work to pull me out of the virtual machine, so I have to open a virtual terminal (that works for some reason) and kill every vmware process. Once I'm out of vmware, it still looks like the key is being pressed down!
I haven't had this problem at all before I installed vmware, and I've had vmware installed for about 3 months (working perfectly) before this problem materialized. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I just changed the settings in vmware to only use my computer's RAM, not swap space, but that's the only change I've made (and I can't change it back, since then vmware just freezes up all the time and is barely functioning). Any one else having this issue? I've tried installing, uninstalling, reinstalling,etc, Vmware tools, and that doesn't make any difference. Sorry about the long post, but having to do a hard reboot of my host system because the keyboard is typing for me is really frustrating when I'm trying to produce CD's. Thanks in advance!
I haven't had this problem at all before I installed vmware, and I've had vmware installed for about 3 months (working perfectly) before this problem materialized. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I just changed the settings in vmware to only use my computer's RAM, not swap space, but that's the only change I've made (and I can't change it back, since then vmware just freezes up all the time and is barely functioning). Any one else having this issue? I've tried installing, uninstalling, reinstalling,etc, Vmware tools, and that doesn't make any difference. Sorry about the long post, but having to do a hard reboot of my host system because the keyboard is typing for me is really frustrating when I'm trying to produce CD's. Thanks in advance!