I've installed VMware Server 2.0 ( from 2008/10/29 | Build: 122956) on a 64bit Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), and set up a Fedora9 and a Ubuntu 8.10 32bit instance. Unfortunately the keyboard mapping was messed up pretty much. If I tried to go up with the arrow key a "save screenshot" window poped up. I only was able to use the navigation keys on the num-pad. A bunch of other keys didn't work either. Either I was tired or a bit too silly to find the solution for the problem quickly. At the end it was simply a wrong search pattern in Google and laziness to read more thoroughly.
Hm – seems notebooks bahave differently.
You should try to scan your keycodes yourself, and would be very very nice, if you wourld report back how you did it.
Use 'xev' to find the code for your keys in doubt. Use it on your working machine and in the vm machine, and map them accordingly.
Excellent, thanks. Number 1 worked for me.