Anyone familiar with VMware?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:49:18PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> Can anyone explain to me why my VMware installation suddenly stopped
>> working?  I used it a couple of weeks ago and "haven't changed anything"
>> but the shift key no longer works, now.
>>
>> google isn't too helpful on this subject and, while the vmware knowledge
>> base has a lot of stuff about keyboards, none of it seems related to my
>> problem.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> cgf
>
>Well, I don't want to state the obvious, but have you Googled for the
>phrase '"shift key" site:vmware.com'?  In particular, there are quite a
>few hits in the forums that describe problems with the shift key on PS/2
>keyboards.  The solutions were to use a USB keyboard, and someone also
>suggested that it may have something to do with the ATI tray icon
>application.

Hmm.  No, I hadn't done a google search on the site.  You'd think that
might have occurred to me, huh?  I just looked in their support forums.

Thanks for the tip.

cgf