Parrot OS 6.0 VMWare mouse and keyboard issue

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I have installed the latest version of Parrot OS and the latest version of VMware Workstation on an Intel platform. When I start the VM, sometimes the keyboard works, and sometimes it does not. If it does not work, I perform several reboots before it suddenly starts working.

Sometimes, while I am working, the system becomes completely unresponsive. I can still see the desktop, so there’s no kernel panic, or at least I am unable to see it, but this also forces me to reboot the machine.

I have already removed and added the USB controller in the VM configuration again, but that did not help at all.

  • Parrot version in use (if you are not aware of it, open terminal and type cat /etc/os-release | grep VERSION):

PRETTY_NAME=“Parrot Security 6.0 (lorikeet)”
NAME=“Parrot Security”
VERSION_ID=“6.0”
VERSION=“6.0 (lorikeet)”
VERSION_CODENAME=lory
ID=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.parrotsec.org/”
SUPPORT_URL=“Parrot Security”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“parrotsec · GitLab”

  • Hypervisor used:

VMWare Workstation 17 Pro
17.5.0 build-22583795

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When you create the VM in VMWare, use the defaults for the keyboard controllers and don’t change them. (i.e. leave as is) If you try adding USB controllers, and then try using them for your keyboard, it will freeze.

In a VM it is a virtualised keyboard, and id doesn’t require any extra drivers for your USB keyboard, that is the job of the underlying OS not VMWare.