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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] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I've never gotten KVM video acceleration for a Windows guest to work on either Intel or Nvidia GPUs with any kind of easy tooling (virt-manager, Boxes). Closest I've come is using Intel vGPUs but those panic the host kernel after a short while.

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

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

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

If the feature never worked, it wouldn't be there! It's just rather unreliable in my experience, while VMWare seems to Just Work.

If I ever get new hardware or a new major kernel update, I'll try toggling the button again, but I totally get why people pick closed source tools in this case. Nothing that can't be fixed, just not something I have the time or skills for to fix.

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

+1 here, intel on laptop.

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

Yeah, that's what I'm referring to. I've never successfully turned on hardware acceleration when running Windows guests, and I don't think Gnome Boxes even exposes the option.