I’ve been trying to get Unity working for VMware Workstation on Ubuntu. I had one PC working and one that wasn’t working. Both ran Ubuntu 8.10, but one with 32bits and the other with the 64bits version. So I expected this to be the problem. After a close examination of the VMware Workstation setup I noticed that the one that didn’t work had the following line in /etc/vmware/config:
xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
This was added manually so I could still use key combo’s like “ctrl-alt-ins”. But on the machine that does have a working Unity mode I implemented the second option described in this blog post.
So I decided to also implement this on my 64bit Ubuntu 8.10 workstation. After restarting VMware workstation this was the result:
Windows Event Viewer running on Ubuntu 8.10 in Unity mode…
Who says they don’t have a VI Client for Linux! Sure looks like you can run the VI Client via Workstation
Sounds like we have very similar setups, I run Ubuntu 8.10 and Workstation 6.5 with a XP guest…although I do not use Unity because I have dual monitors. I just keep one monitor for XP and the other for Ubuntu.