I hate it when the virtual machine especially those you've deployed linux with, echoes every single character you input twice on the console. All the while I had thought you can get this fixed by installing the VMware Tools. I knew it was partly due to the network latency. But apparently there is a fix or workaround on VMware's KB click here ->
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=196
All you need to do is on the vSphere client
- Power off the virtual machine
- Right click virtual machine select Edit Settings
- Click Options > General > Configuration Parameters
- Click Add Row (apparently this parameter does not exist by default, they probably should make this editable/configurable, instead of releasing a KB)
- Under Name enter keyboard.typematicMinDelay In the Value field 2000000
- Click OK
- Power on the virtual machine
Else, you'd need to locate the respective datastore for that virtual machine and edit the VMX configuration file
