I am trying to learn ethical hacking during this lockdown. The video series often need me to play with Kali Linux since its one of the most common distribution for pen-testing. But sadly VMware has not been a very helpful/reliable experience. Because 3 out of 5 times, I either have to wait for VMware to recognize that I am on it so that I can use Keyboard OR sometimes it gets even worse, no matter what I do, I cannot type at all. Yes, I can move my mouse freely, copy-paste each word/letters but that's it. No user input. Pressing letters on host OS will click some option as if I am using the mouse or it will write tetter like this ^[s if I press s, ^[d if I press d and so on. This is very disturbing. I dunno what to do. If there something I need to do in order to make this work, please let me know.
Note:
1. This doesn't happen if I use VM only. But if I go back-and-forth between host OS application and guest OS application, we will see the problem.
2. VM which I have installed is the latest stable and Kali Linux is also the latest version.
2 screenshot with 2 situations:
1st screenshot: VM is working fine when using host Os and guest os back-and-forth.
2nd screenshot: VM is not recognized user keyboard input as I have mentioned in the post.
VMware Workstation 15.5.6 build-16341506
Update:
A reverse scenario I reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telegram-desktop/+bug/1891976
What happened here?
Ans: In short, I am/was not able to use an app named Telegram which is installed in host OS due to VMware hijacking my mouse and keyboard.
Moderator: Please do not start new threads on the same issue.
The second thread you created today has been archived.
I get at least a link to that post. That would a great way to solve the problem form your side.
There's no way to do that with an archived post, please keep this thread updated with further info or questions on your issue.
And the new problem I post wasn't 100% equal.
This post is more about VMware's guest OS not reviewing user inputs.
And my second post was about VMware killing the user interface of host OS application's normal behavior.
I wonder what kind of sandboxing VMware use/have. I wonder if VMware even uses sandboxing or not. But this is NOT good.
Anyway, if u are the developer stating both problems are the same, then u 'might' be right.