Sunday, December 31, 2017

FreeBSD 11.x Guest Keyboard Stops Working in VMware

If you're firing up a 11.x instance of FreeBSD in VMware, you may find that the keyboard works until you shift focus to a different window. Shifting focus back to the FreeBSD window will not give you keyboard input again.

For me the fix was this:

In the .vmx file (or in the GUI under Edit Settings -> Options -> General, then Configuration Parameters...) add this line:

Let me know if you needed to do something different to make it work.

keyboard.typematicMinDelay = "2000000"

Let me know if you needed to do something different to make it work. 

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