Echo.. echo.. [VMware techie stuff]

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