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Is anyone using VMware under a Wayland host? (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Switch to KVM based virtualization such as gnome boxes or virtual manager

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This. It is free, and good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The best in the industry

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What do you like about GNOME Boxes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I've a very bad experience with GNOME boxes, both VMware and VirtualBox seem to outperform the thing and work better (drag and drop and resolution scaling, actual GPU acceleration).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It is simpler and runs as a local user