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VMware Keyboard Shortcuts
Ctrl+Alt - Transfers mouse and keyboard input from the virtual machine to the local machine. Switches from full screen mode to running the VMware Remote Console in a separate window
Ctrl+G - Transfers mouse and keyboard input from the local machine to the virtual machine
Ctrl+Alt+Insert - Sends a Ctrl+Alt+Del signal to the virtual machine
Ctrl+Alt+Enter - Switches between full screen mode and running VMware Remote Console in a separate window
F11 - switches to full-screen mode and back to normal mode
Ctrl-Alt-Insert - sends a Ctrl-Alt-Delete to the VMware Guest OS
Ctrl-Alt-Enter - Expands the current VM into full-screen. If you have a number of VMs, this sequence will also move you between virtual machines
Ctrl-Alt-Tab - switch between VMs when the mouse is grabbed
Ctrl-Tab - switch between VMs when the mouse is not grabbed but VMware is the active window
Ctrl-Alt - is used to exit a Virtual machine from having control of your mouse and return your mouse control to the host machine
Ctrl-Alt-Space - will allow you to send a keyboard sequence usually used with VMware server to the VMware guest without VMware Server recognizing it
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