Key Repeats in VMWare?

Lately, I've been working on a custom Linux system in VMWare ESXi.  I have a somewhat uncommon setup, however.  I use the Infrastructure Client within an RDP session to administer my virtual machines.

Many times, especially over connections with high latency, an issue occurs when typing that causes a single key strike to register an unpredictable amount of times (well, theoretically, it is predictable, but that is far out of the scope of this post.)

I solved this issue by performing the following steps (Please note that the virtual machine will need to be powered off to perform these steps):

1. Open the vSphere Client and login to the VMWare server
2. Go to the Inventory and expand the list of virtual machines
3. Right-click the virtual machine you want to make the change to and select Edit Settings...
4. Select the Options tab.  Under Settings -> Advanced -> General, select Configuration Parameters...
5. Select Add Row.  In the Name column, type in keyboard.typematicMinDelay.
6. I used the value of 1000000.  This creates a delay in registering key presses.  Therefore, the higher the value, the longer you have to hold a key down for it to register more than once.  (Think of it this way: k[pause]kkkkk)

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