VMware virtual machine and Macintosh keyboard correspondence table

In a virtual machine environment, sometimes in order to normally use the CTRL key light, you need to understand the corresponding mapping relationship table. The form below is from the VMware website for your reference. This table lists some PC keystrokes and provides a way to do the appropriate keystrokes/functions using the Macintosh/fusion keyboard:

Pc	Macintosh/fusion
Ctrl+alt+del	To send Ctrl+alt+del to a virtual machine: From the Fusion menu, go to "virtual machine">"Send ctrl-alt-delete". On the Macintosh notebook keyboard, press Fn+ctrl+option+delete. On the full-size Macintosh keyboard, press control+option+| X>. Note : | X> (delete forward) key below the Help key. If using an external PC keyboard, press Crtl+alt+delete.
Delete	Delete on Apple keyboard Keys are actually equivalent to the backspace of all other operating systems. To send the Delete key of the PC to the virtual machine: from the Fusion menu, go to "virtual machine" ; "Send key" ; " | X> ( Delete forward ) " on the Macintosh notebook keyboard, press fn+ Delete . on the full-size Macintosh keyboard, press the | X> . Note : | X> (delete forward) key below the Help key.
Insert	To send an Insert key to a virtual machine: On the old Mac keyboard is the Help key. On the old Macintosh notebook keyboard, press fn+m. Note : The new Macintosh notebook does not support Fn+M. To map the Insert key to any convenient key combination of your choice, go to VMware Fusion>preferences> " keyboard and mouse">"Key mapping".
Print screen	To send the Print screen key to the virtual machine: From the Fusion menu, go to "virtual machine"> "Send key">"Print Scrn ". On the full-size Macintosh keyboard, press F13.
alt-gr	To send the ALT-GR key to the virtual machine: on the full-size Macintosh keyboard, press the right Option (or Alt ) key or the Enter key for the numeric key area. on the European Macintosh Notebook keyboard, press the Option (or Alt ) key next to the right Command key. Note : This operation will not work when the numeric keypad is turned on with Num Lock. To disable ALT-GR mapping: open this file in Text Edit: [Macintosh hd]/users/<your username >/library/preferences/vmware fusion/preferences Locate the line that begins with pref.mapisonumpadentertoaltgrenabled. to change TRUE to FALSE.
Select multiple list items	Ctrl + click as you would in a regular Windows environment: 1. Go " VMware Fusion " ; Preferences ; Keyboard and mouse ; mouse shortcut keys . 2. Disable "secondary key" so that it is no longer mapped to the Control-primary key. If you use it temporarily, press and hold Ctrl-option, click Select multiple items at the same time.
Num LOCK	To send Num Lock to a virtual machine: from the Fusion menu, go to "virtual machine" ; "Send key" > Clear (Num Lock) . on the full-size Macintosh keyboard, press Clear .
Function key	To send a function key to a virtual machine (such as F1 or F3): press fn+< required function keys ; . Note : To make Mac function keys function as normal functions, and to use fn+< function keys to trigger a specific feature, go to Apple menu ; System Preferences ; "Keyboard" (or "keyboard and mouse" ; "Keyboard" ), and then select "Make use all F1 , F2 the same key as the standard function key ". Note : To use F13-f24 on a virtual machine, you must use the steps above to change the default behavior of the function keys.
Windows Key	The default is mapped to the Command key. But if you don't want to, you can also map it to any other key you choose. To map the Windows key to any key you choose, go to VMware Fusion>preferences> "Keyboard and mouse">"Key mapping".

Note：

• IfCtrl+ click does not work in Windows, but instead sends a right-click, see "Select multiple list Items"in this table.
• If you are using an optional keyboard layout instead of a US-English keyboard layout, see Using an optional keyboard layout for virtual machines (1005578) in VMware Fusion (using a alternate keyboard layout for a virtual m Achine in VMware Fusion (1005578)).

VMware virtual machine and Macintosh keyboard correspondence table