Use external keyboard (PC) in Fusion 8

[Jakobseen]

Hi all,

I would like to use an external keyboard (e.g. Logitech for PC) for my Mac, when I am running Windows 7 on my Mac in Fusion 8.

I spend a lot of time in Excel, and I am missing the Excel for PC. However, it's a pain with a Mac keyboard!

Thank you very much in advance for any help on the matter.

Best regards

Danni Jakobsen

[RickShu]

Hi,

Is there any technical problem which is preventing you from using an external keyboard?

Regards,

-Rick

[Jakobseen]

Hi Rick,

Absolutely not, I am doing it now. The problem is just, when I use my wireless keyboard (Wireless Keyboard K270 Trådløs Unifying-forbindelse i fuld størrelse) in Windows 7 on my Mac, i doesn't adapt the "PC-keyboard". So, the idea of having a PC keyboad in e.g. Excel is not really there.

Thank you for your reply!

All the best

Danni

[dariusd]

Hi Danni,

Are there particular keys or functions that are not working as you would expect?  If so, what's going wrong?  If you can describe exactly how things differ from "ideal", we can see if there is a way to configure your Windows VM to behave the way you would like.

Thanks,

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Darius

[RickShu]

Hi Danni,

I guess your keyboard http://www.logitech.com/da-dk/product/wireless-keyboard-k270?crid=27Wireless Keyboard K270 Trådløs Unifying-forbindelse i fuld størrelse is non-english layout and is not recognised by Mac OS X (please refer to the specification section in Wireless Keyboard K270 Trådløs Unifying-forbindelse i fuld størrelse)

Would you please try other keyboard which is compatibel with Mac OS X?

Regards,

-Rick

[Jakobseen]

Hi Dariusd,

Well, ideally the keyboard that I have linked to in the previous post would just work as if it was connected to a PC. The problem is that the keys on the keyboard does not give the same values when used with my Mac. I can try to connect it later today and see. Be aware of the post below by RickShu, he's correctly referring to that the keyboard is not recognised by Mac OS X. However, I have never seen a "PC" keyboard that was Mac recognised?

Thank you very much for your help!

Danni

[Jakobseen]

Hi RickShu,

You are right, it is not Mac OS X recognised, however the keyboard connects fine and works great (just beside the difference in characters etc.). I have never seen any Windows keyboard, that was Mac recognised? If then, it is basically an external Mac keyboard?

Thank you for your help!

Danni

[Mikero]

There's vmx flag you can use to allow you to pass a keyboard (or any HID/Human Input Device) to the VM.

Note that this actually takes the keyboard away from he host (Mac), and gives it to the Guest (Win) like any other USB device.

HowTo: Setting up VMware Fusion to work with HID devices