[502] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Sep 16 17:31:58 2008
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:31:13 -0400
> By the way, step #4 does not work under VMware on a Red Hat system,
> because ctrl-alt-f1 never gets to VMware. The X server grabs it.
> (I couldn't figure out how to deal with that, so I just ssh'd in.)
>
Ctrl-Alt-anything does not work under VMware with any distribution of
Linux, because VMware (stupidly) uses Ctrl+Alt as the hotkeys to
switch back and forth between the host and guest OSes. I solve this
problem by setting the hotkeys to something else (Ctrl+Shift seems to
work), and am able to successfully switch between VT7 and VT1 in the
guest OS.
Does this explicitly need to be documented on the athena10 page? It
will fail just as miserably when using, say, RHEL under VMware.
-Jon
