Are you sure that VMware has "captured" the keyboard? Usually this happens when the mouse is active within the VM, but there might be a key combo or button that tells VMware to accept input from the keyboard. Can you post a screenshot?
On Sunday, July 21, 2019 at 8:04:56 PM UTC-5, Howard wrote: > > Remember getting this head-scratcher of a Windows (or is it BIOS?) error > message? I have a similar situation. > > My "project" has been to get a laptop with Ubuntu as the primary > operating system with Windows 10 running under VMWare Player. I've > goofed around with this for quite a while (many calendar days, not many > hours of effort) to the point that I now have this very combination up > and running. > > Kind of. > > Windows 10 doesn't recognize the laptop keyboard. I have not yet tried > plugging in an external USB keyboard for a look see. I did try going > into Device Manager (I can get there by glide pad only) and deleted the > reference to PS/2 Keyboard. First observation - pointing and clicking > device works fine, no keyboard. Second observation - PS/2??? Anyway, > one of the "happy talk" how-to's said "delete the keyboard and reboot." > PS/2 came back, no type. > > Any number of other "happy talk how-to's" said that you could press > whatever key combination to solve the problem. Really? Key presses not > received by Windows 10. > > Not even F1. > > Howard > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/5fb1660c-199b-4d8c-8c7b-2167e6f282de%40googlegroups.com.
