VMWare and keyboard input
by gregs on Jul.09, 2008, under *nix, mac, os x, vmware
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This morning I fired my Windows XP VM on my mac and my keyboard input simply stopped working. After a couple of VM reboots, which had no effect, I did some googling. The first result suggested typing a few commands to determine what had disabled it:
CODE:
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$ ioreg -l -w 0 | grep SecureInput
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| "IOConsoleUsers" = ({"kCGSSessionSecureInputPID"=177,"kCGSSessionLoginwindowSafeLogin"=No,"kCGSSessionAuditIDKey"=0,"kCGSessionLoginDoneKey"=Yes,"kCGSSessionSystemSafeBoot"=No,"kCGSSessionOnConsoleKey"=Yes,"kCGSSessionUserIDKey"=501,"kSCSecuritySessionID"=11622192,"kCGSSessionUserNameKey"="gregstewart","kCGSSessionGroupIDKey"=20,"kCGSSessionConsoleSetKey"=0,"kCGSSessionIDKey"=256,"kCGSessionLongUserNameKey"="User"})
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$ ps auxwwww | grep 177
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user 177 7.8 9.2 652520 192788 ?? S 10:51pm 59:09.22 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -psn_0_110619
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user 1155 0.0 0.0 599820 464 s001 S+ 10:44am 0:00.00 grep 177
According to the post the application that was blocking it was FireFox. "kCGSSessionSecureInputPID"=177 is the info you need to look for, where in my case 177 was the number I needed to use in the next command. Incredulous as I was, I closed FireFox and hey presto keyboard input was working again.
Hopefully this post will help others.
July 10th, 2008 on 4:39 pm
The scary thing is, I had this *exact* same problem this morning as well! Thanks for the post!