I found a bug for the VMware® Workstation 17 Pro 17.5.0 build-22583795 with enhanced keyboard

[Michaelinzo]

I have a VMware® Workstation 17 Pro 17.5.0 build-22583795 just updated earlier. I use KBR1 2 and my XSIID to login in my Virtual Machines but recently it is causing to freeze the Virtual Machines, I never had this problem before with past version like 16.00 or 17.00. I also cannot use shortcuts like CTRL+SHIFT+C for Copy or CTRL+SHIFT+P for paste in the terminal, etc. I also tried upgrading my virtual machines hardware combability into 17.5.0 from 16.00 or 17.00 but it still freezes also I tried to change USB combability into 3.1 USB than 2.0. The bug is in the latest Virtual Machines in VMware® Workstation 17 Pro with enhanced keyboard also with kbr1 2 freezing/crashing the system in scan. I found a solution for the freezing/crashing after using the shortcuts or scanning your bio-chip implants is to do a VMware® Workstation 17 Pro downgrade. I attached a screenshot after scanning my bio-chip implants it freezes/crashes the system, etc. it only prints out the 2 digits of my UID and spam out the second integer/digit and I need to do a hard reboot/restart but sometimes I cannot login since it won't scan my password in my bio-chip invasive implant with kbr1.  

[Dhairya Tomar]

 Ticket has been raised internally. Relevant team will look into the same.

[Michael Banack]

Two things you can try:

(1) Power off the VM, and add the config option:

keyboard.allowBothIRQs = FALSE

This might cause your Linux VM's input to hang if the Guest tries to Sleep/Hibernate, but it may work-around the problem.

(2) Power off the VM and make sure the VM has a USB controller, and add this config option to switch to the virtual USB keyboard:

keyboard.vusb.enable = TRUE

That will switch from using the PS/2 keyboard to the USB keyboard, but may make your key-repeat get stuck more often.

 

I think that (1) is sufficient to solve your problem, but if not (2) might also work-around the problem.

[diegosz]

Hi, after updating to Workstation 17 Pro 17.5.0 build-22583795, I start to have the same issue, the keyboard stops responding, It did this 5 times in less than 3 hours.

I applied  first suggestion:

(1) Power off the VM, and add the config option: keyboard.allowBothIRQs = FALSE

And after that, the issue is gone. Don't want to jinx it, but 1 full day of working without the issue.

Many thanks!!!!

Cheers,

Diego

[VMware Community Member]

I'm going to second this fix as the "correct" one.  I've had this issue for a few months now, and only recently was I able to confirm that it was my left shift key that was causing the problem.  Swapping keyboards, uninstalling the "enhanced" keyboard driver (i.e. uninstall/reinstall VMWare workstation pro), uninstalling any keyboard-specific drivers (I've got a 65% keyboard), nothing worked.  I even tried some other config changes I found on the forum, but the keyboard.allowBothIRQs = FALSE option did the trick!  Hopefully others find this fix and don't pull out too much hair.

[Dhairya Tomar]

 Please upgrade to the latest Workstation version 17.5.1 as this issue has been fixed in this release.

[smarshall]

I am seeing this freezing issue after upgrading to 17.5.1.  I came here looking for a fix but it was supposedly already fixed???