I am running vmware player 5.0.1 build-894247 under Windows 8.
Hosting OS: Windows 8 64 bit, enterprise edition
Guest OS: Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit
the latested VmWare tools has been installed.
From time to time in Ubuntu, the keyboard behaves wired. After some exploration, I found out it behave like the "Windows" key has been pressed and never released. Of course the "windows" key is not pressed.
The mouse is working fine. And everything else is working fine.
The only way to get out of this state is to press "Windows" Key + L, which will be intercepted by the host Windows 8 as lock computer. After unlock in Windows 8, everything returns to normal.
This can happen as often as every 10 minutes to few hours.
After I did some research, the same problem happens when run Windows Remote Desktop inside Windows 8. There is some synchronization issue which caused the RDP act as the "Windows" key has been pressed.
Does anybody else run into this situation. Is there any way to fix it?
Thanks