On the Mac itself, I have remapped the [[caps lock]] key (does anybody actually use that thing these days?) to [[Command]] (that’s the key with the weird symbol… ah well, one of the keys with weird symbols!). I had always done the same thing on Windows, where it required registry changes, so I was positively surprised to find that on the Mac it’s just a system preferences option… Microsoft, here’s how you do that kind of thing:
Now, while I’ve found it useful on the Mac to have the [[Command]] key easily accessible (although [[Ctrl]] is still used in too many places, like terminals and things… gotta find a solution to that), that key is recognized as a [[Windows]] key in VMWare. So I changed one of the registry trickery files so that the Windows keys get remapped to [[Ctrl]] for use in Windows. Works like a charm. Here’s what the content of that .reg file looks like:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlKeyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,5B,E0,1d,00,5C,E0,00,00,00,00
Hope it helps somebody!