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.
Better question is who is using VMware at all. QEMU+virt-manager on top.
Honestly, I was forced to use it for a project and then just stuck with it for its simplicity
Why?
It’s got really good hardware graphics acceleration.
So does KVM
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I just flipped the toggle and it worked. This is probably a “your millage will vary” moment.
Additionally GPU acceleration has received a lot of love recently as there has been a push for Foss VDI
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Specifically for Windows vms without a GPU passed to it, VMware tends to do a way better job at least in my testing
If you install the virtio drivers KVM based virtualization it will work way better. You can even copy and paste
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