Yellow Bricks » unity http://www.yellow-bricks.com Building blocks for virtualization... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:12:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 VMware Workstation, Ubuntu and Unity http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/12/01/vmware-workstation-ubuntu-and-unity/ http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/12/01/vmware-workstation-ubuntu-and-unity/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:37:06 +0000 Duncan Epping http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1117 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 [...]

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]]> 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…

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