I run Windows on my Linux desktop using VMware Server. It works pretty well. However, one thing I hate about VMware is the fact that it has a direct key binding to reboot the system, without confirmation. The key binding is to one of my most oft-used keys: Ctrl-R. I hit Ctrl-R on a very regular basis because that's the hot key to reload a page in Internet Explorer and Firefox, which is something I do pretty frequently as a web developer. Anyway, since I mouse back and forth between VMware and my Firefox browser, about once in every 50 Ctrl-R's, focus is occasionally back on VMware, which causes an immediate reboot and also an immediate expletive from me.
This is stupid and, from reading the VMware forums, a problem that's existed since at least 2004 that still hasn't been addressed. So far the solutions are either to make it so that it's really hard to give VMware focus by accident or to turn on hints and enabled the hint on resets to add an additional confirmation when you make this action. Both are unsatisfactory.
However, in case you are also frustrated by this, I can keep you from going further to look for a solution. Close your VMware Console and edit the preferences file, which is ~/.vmware/preferences under Linux. In that file, add a line reading:
pref.vmui.reset = "TRUE"
Next, save the file and open VMware Console back up and go to Help > Hints > Show Enabled Hints. Make sure you do both or you will still be frustrated the next time you hit Ctrl-R.
Cheers.
