VMware Fusion keyboard problems and Checkpoint VPN
Apparently, VMware Fusion 1.0 (51348) has problems accepting keyboard input when Checkpoint SecureRemote VPN client is running on Mac OS X 10.4.10. Turning off the SecureRemote client allows
I find this only affects my machine after I have VPN into the network and then tried to launch Fusion.
What is interesting is that according to this post the way to discover that it is the SecureRemote client is to issue the following on the command line of the Mac:
ioreg -l -w 0 | grep SecureInput
“IOConsoleUsers” = ({”kCGSSessionGroupIDKey”=20,”kCGSSessionOnConsoleKey”=Yes,”kCGSSessionIDKey”=256,” … “kCGSSessionUserIDKey”=501, “kCGSSessionSecureInputPID”=311}) “IOConsoleUsersSeed” = <14000000>
Then take the value of kCGSSessionSecureInputPID and search for it in the process list:
ps auxww | grep 311
In my case, that was the PID for the SecureRemote client. Very cool.