Is there any means to make a USB keyboard visible within the VM so that you could install the native driver? Is that possible? With other USB devices it is obviously (when you insert a USB thumbdrive you'll be asked whether it should connect to guest or host).
The Host OS doesn't 'grab' the mouse and keyboard, they're just controlled and installed by the Host OS and as far as the Guest OS it supplies its own keyboard and mouse drivers without VMware Tools installed although using Windows XP as an example the keyboard drivers, i8042prt.sys and kbdclass.sys are provided by the Guest OS not VMware Tools nor does installing VMware Tools change the keyboard drivers used by the Windows XP Guest and the mouse drivers mousclass.sys and mouhid.sys are provided by Windows XP not VMware Tools and if VMware Tools are installed it adds the VMware Pointing Device using the vmmouse.sys driver however installing VMware Tools is not required to have a working keyboard and mouse in the Guest OS.Įxactly, if the Guest grabs the keyboard or mouse from the Host then you'd be in trouble without another way to control the Host and what the Guest does is grabs input for those devices when it has the focus but it's not taking control of the hardware away from the Host.
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