The enhanced virtual keyboard driver provides better handling of international keyboards and keyboards that have extra keys. I have seen this on Workstation Pro 12 as well (I upgraded to 15 Pro, and while the problem occurs less frequently, it still rears its head a few times a week). Select this option if you need to change the shared virtual machines directory, modify the VMware Workstation Server port, or install the enhanced virtual keyboard driver. Now I can log in using the VMWare Workstation view.The keyboard is does work in other VMs as usual.īut once a VM stops responding to the keyboard, the only way to bring back the keyboard is: The mouse works within the VM, but the keyboard does not. Symptoms: After installing VMware player and enabling Enhanced Keyboard Driver, keyboard will not work (bluetooth or USB). I can click the Ctrl-Alt-Del icon to signal the guest to prompt for a login. Early Workstations did not even have a button to prevent installation of the enhanced keyboard driver. In some cases we complained for years until the GUI was modified to follow our recommendations. Occasionally, when I need to log into one of these VMs, the keyboard does not work on the login screen. The GUI and the VMware documentation has always been years behind the recommendations of the community. My host keyboard is a standard Lenovo USB keyboard (wired, not wireless). The VMware Enhanced Keyboard Driver handles integration and support for keyboards for different languages or HID devices with additional functionality. I run a few server VMs from my Windows 10 host, with the enhanced keyboard driver installed.Īll VMs have up-to-date VMWare Tools installed. My VM Workstation 15 Pro (15.5.0 build-14665864) randomly stops accepting keyboard input when the guest VM is locked.