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initialZero
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‎06-30-2009 11:32 AM

Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000 Keys Mapped Wrong

The keys are incorrectly mapped on my Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000 with a Linux host and any guest. The arrow keys do not work correctly and the number pad has to be used as the navigation keys. This is VERY annoying to write code in a guest without the arrow keys.

Using any type of guest Windows or Solaris produces the same results. It's been this way with every version of the 6 series and this keyboard.

Any ideas?

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K-MaC
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‎06-30-2009 07:14 PM

Please see the following page for information on how to fix the keyboard mappings.

http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/keyboard_linux.html

Cheers

Kevin

Cheers Kevin
initialZero
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‎07-01-2009 03:56 PM

This is close, but not quite it. There seems to be more of a problem here.

Using Linux as a host and Windows XP as a guest I can debug the issue by seeing what key codes the arrow keys generate in hex.

right key = 13

left key = 12

down arrow = 5c # same as windows key

up arrow = no key event generated!

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