topic Re: Hot keys for getting out of Virtual machine not working in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions

Hot keys for getting out of Virtual machine not working

Tornaci — Sun, 31 May 2020 18:04:40 GMT

Hi,

After the resent update of Vmware Workstation pro 15.5.5, the hot keys to get out of the VMs stops working.

My Hotkeys are set to CTRL + ALT. I can't even get out of the VM without shutting the VM.

My host is Windows 10 2004 (20H1)

I didn't have the problem at first when I updated windows to te latest. I still had VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.2.

But as soon as I updated Vmware to the latest (15.5.5) the problem occured.

Can you guys please help me?

Re: Hot keys for getting out of Virtual machine not working

scott28tt — Sun, 31 May 2020 20:09:30 GMT

Check this thread: Ctrl-Alt (to direct input back to host OS) stopped working in Player 15.5.5

Re: Hot keys for getting out of Virtual machine not working

Tornaci — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:19:10 GMT

This worked for me for a single time. After that it got back just to the way it was.

Re: Hot keys for getting out of Virtual machine not working

banackm — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:06:55 GMT

We've seen similar issues recently with the 15.5.5 release, although our reports so far have all shown this to be a temporary problem.

You could try issues by setting the following config option:

mks.win32.useInjectedMagic=FALSE

In either your VM's vmx file or your per-user config file.

If that works, please let us know.

Re: Hot keys for getting out of Virtual machine not working

Tornaci — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 08:29:35 GMT

Adding

mks.win32.useInjectedMagic=FALSE

to the VMs VMX seems to be working.

But I don't know where the per-user config file is located at. Where can I acces this to edit it?

Re: Hot keys for getting out of Virtual machine not working

banackm — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:26:18 GMT

The precise path may vary depending on how your Windows host is setup, but on my Windows system it's at:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\VMware\config.ini

Replace "username" with your username, and possibly "Roaming" with "Local" or "LocalData" depending on what's there. The "VMware" sub-folder is generally present if you found the right location, but you may have to create the config.ini file if it's not already there.

But there's a number of places we check for config settings, so if you check the top of a vmware.log file for one of your VMs and search for all the lines that contain "DICT ---" it should list them all, as well as all the options it picked up from them so you can double-check that it worked.

Re: Hot keys for getting out of Virtual machine not working

Tornaci — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 14:37:47 GMT

After creating the config.ini in the dir down bellow it worked for me.

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\VMware\config.ini

This is whats in the file.

Thank you very much BM