Then I noticed craigherring's post:
Add this to:
/etc/vmware/config
-- snip --
xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R
xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide
xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter
xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up
xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down
xkeymap
I added this line to /etc/vmware/config:
xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
and it fixed the problem, without the warning message.
I'm running VMware Server Console 1.0.0 build-108231 on Ubuntu 8.10
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VMWare keyboard mapping made incorrect on recent Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 Updates
-dated Fri Oct 24 2
> Better upadate Network Manager to latest version (0.7.0-rc2)
I built and installed this version of network-manager on my stock 8.10
system, and it screwed things up so that gnome could not launch
applications. So I uninstalled network-manager altogether and
configured manually in /etc/network/
