[aklug] Re: intersting vmware behavior

On Friday 20 February 2009, Leif Sawyer wrote:
> > Greg Madden wrote:
> > > This issue has hit me, I use Vmware WS 5.5.4, Linux host,
> > > various=20 guests including Windows & Linux.
> > >
> > > After a certain sequence of operations in a vm the modifyer keys
> > > on=20 the keyboard, in the host os, stop working, no caps
> > > lock...=20 etc. The keys still work in the guest. AFAIKT switching
> > > the vm to=20 full screen mode does this here, I have read
> > > references to a=20 combination of mouse activity and keystrokes
> > > will do this.
>
> FWIW, this is fixed in VM WS 6.x (at least, I haven't run into it
> since upgrading)
>
> Or you could migrate your VM's to VirtualBox, depending on
> requirements/issues.

Is there a wa to use a Vmware vm in Virtualbox? What do you mean by
migrate ? I have Virtualbox setup and running a Linux distro but I have
been hestitating to install Windows from scratch :-)

-- 
Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
Phone: (907)276-0461
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