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 [...]

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