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Default Hot Key Combinations
You can assign a hot key to switch among virtual machines and the host. The default hot key is the
Pause/Break key.
The following keys are reserved and cannot be assigned as hot keys.
Table 1‑1. Default Hot-Key Combinations
Shortcut Action
Ctrl+Alt Release the mouse cursor.
Ctrl+Alt+Insert Shut down or, depending on the guest operating system, log out of the guest operating
system. This command is received solely by the virtual machine.
Set the VMware KVM Log File
You can configure a log file for VMware KVM.
The log file records diagnostic information from vmware-kvm.exe. The log file is separate from the
vmware.log file, which stores information on running virtual machines.
If you do not specify a log file, vmware-kvm.exe generates a log file in the %TEMP% folder .
Setting a log file is not required.
Procedure
1
Open the %APPDATA%\VMware\config.ini file in a text editor.
2 Add vmkvm.log.filename = "C:\filepath\vmkvm.log" to the file, where filepath is a fully qualified file
path to the desired location for the log file.
For example, vmkvm.log.filename = "C:\Users\Default\vmkvm.log".
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