[503] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Tue Sep 16 17:34:30 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:33:10 -0400
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 05:31:13PM -0400, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> 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.
You can make it work, if I recall correctly, by focusing the VM,
holding down ctrl and alt, pressing and releasing space, and then
pressing F1. I don't have a VMware instance handy to test my
recollection on, and it's possible this was a new feature in the betas
I was working on this summer...
- Nelson
>
> Does this explicitly need to be documented on the athena10 page? It
> will fail just as miserably when using, say, RHEL under VMware.
>
> -Jon
