I’ve been using VMware Player (free version) for a while now and it’s been working fine. Recently I switched to Wayland and VMware’s grab input behavior broke. The guest gets most keys correctly but Alt and Super are intercepted by the host. Clicking on the vm also gives me a remote desktop popup on the host prompting to allow remote interaction which gives some weird results both on the host and guest. Apparently this is a known issue with gnome(?) and the only workaround is to add Super to any shortcut (eg. Super+Alt+Tab) but this obviously doesn’t work for all shortcuts.

I’m using Gnome on Fedora and Ubuntu and they seem to have the same behavior (but no remote desktop popup on Ubuntu). Both work fine on X11. I’ve also tested both VMware player 16 and 17.

So if anyone is using VMware on Wayland, do you know of a combination that works? Does it work on KDE? Should I just switch to Virtualbox? I’d really rather keep Wayland if possible.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•8 months ago

    I had the same issue and was unable to find a solution.

    I’d say switch to gnome-boxes or virt-managerif possible - they don’t have this issue with Wayland and perform better than VMWare / Virtual Box anyway.

    • @[email protected]OP
      3•8 months ago

      Interesting, I didn’t know about virt-manager. I might try one of those, thanks for the suggestion.