On 2010-11-30 17:06, Edward Iii wrote:
>> I do not have that menu entry, no “help” button. Maybe the trick is not
>> for the server version.
> Sad to hear it doesn’t work.
> I thought it would have worked because it also says:
> article Wrote:
>> I run Windows on my Linux desktop using VMware Server. …
It might have been for version 1 of the console.
> But there’s another workaround: ‘VMWare ctrl-z key binding, how to
> remove - Stack Overflow’ (http://tinyurl.com/33yuhhc)
> This workaround is actually for the [Ctrl] + [z] key binding but it
> should also work for the [Ctrl] + [r].
>
> Good luck!
Interesting… it says:
····
This will not remove the key binding from VmWare, but you could set the
option to “Grab keyboard and mouse intput on key press” in the VmWare
preferences. VmWare help explicitly states that this will disable the
system accelerator key sequences.
·····
But I don’t see those preferences anywhere. No preferences menu. I suppose
I have to edit the preferences file:
pref.grabOnKeyPress = “TRUE”
and restart the console.
…]
Wow. Children, don’t do this at home…
It grabbed the keyboard alright, but then did not release it. Pressing
ctrl-alt released and grabbed the keyboard continously, but I could not tab
to the host as any key was grabbed. The mouse died (the VM was in text
mode), and as the host remembered the mouse position over the vmconsole…
impossible to exit. It cycled continuously as if I had pressed [enter] and
never released it.
Nothing worked. I had to boot the laptop, ssh-in, find the PID of the
console and kill it.
I changed the option back to false. Then I found another preference - there
is no menu here:
hints.hideAll = “TRUE” (tried also FALSE).
which should work together with
hint.vmui.reset = “TRUE”
hint.vmui.poweroff = “TRUE”
But it doesn’t work… machine resets with no questions asked. Puagh.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
