you may experience some problems with arrow keys, pg up/pg down and home/end keys with vmware 6.5 and Ubuntu Linux Intrepid 8.10.
a workaround for those problems is to create a file named config under .vmware folder in your home directory and fill it with either (both workarounds work!):
a)
xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

b)
xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0×138 # Alt_R
xkeymap.keycode.106 = [...]

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