well while having time off at present thought  would try and solve this other ways because its obvious that VMWare are using some old calls that do not behave the way they used to and that VMWare can not actually see or even recognide they have a problem. I've tried all sorts of things to stop this from occurring and the closest i can come is to permanent enable the touch bar. Nothing else seems to impact the outcome except for this. Seems that when th touchbar switches modes then the key repeat occurs. Simply can not remove that issue. Seems back toparallels.

Yes happens with VMWare on MACOS12, 13 and 14 with internal and external keyboards seems that those with touchbars are effected more greatly than those without. Any itttttt can be annnnnnnny key as you say. Its been this way for well over a year now and obviously not going to be fixed by VMWare. Best t head towards an alternative product if you want to use a VM.

Thanks for the response. Yes this has been an issue since version 8 of Fusion. There is another thread High Sierra and Fusion "stuck" keys |VMware Communitieshttps://communities.vmware.com/thread/577500 that is 12 pages long on this topic. VMware did seem to fix it in a 10.3 patch release that did not seem to go public. Release 11 returned to the same old problem and 12 the issue remained. It is extremely simple to replicate on my machine. Simply install ubuntu server, get to a cli line and then wait for the Touch Bar to turn off. The next key the MAC lights up the touch bar and the key bounces in the ubuntu terminal. Has not changed in the years and makes using Linux inside of fusion almost impossible. Luckily there are alternatives to Fusion that do not suffer from this issue. It is a pity because I like Fusion, and I keep returning in hope that some year the issue may be addressed but as you point out its unlikely this will ever occur and I'm best to remain using alternative products.