I just finished my upgrade from Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 this past week (since I had downtime from work, I could afford to break things for a few days). The upgrade went great, and I’ll write about it shortly, once I get used to the newness.
Anyways; Workstation 6.5 has been giving me problems. Because of the newness of KDE4, I initially thought it was a KDE problem, but it turns out it’s something between Workstation 6.5 and Ubuntu 8.10. I just ran the “adapt –dist-upgrade-devel†command from the Ubuntu wiki to upgrade, and upon reboot, I couldn’t “ctrl-alt-ins†or “ctrl-alt-del†to log into my Windows VM, my “Windows/Start†key on the keyboard wouldn’t respond, and my arrow keys wouldn’t work. Incredibly, when I’d hit the “down†arrow, I’d get the Windows Start menu pop up!!
Fix is easy, edit /etc/vmware/config and add the line below like:
sudo vim /etc/vmware/config
:$
A (that's vi-command for "go to the end of the file, and start writing a new line")
xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
Have to restart your VMs for this change to take effect. Thanks to Duncan Epping for this fix (he posted it in the forums, where I found it).
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