German Keyboard, VMWare, Ubuntu host

There are lots of things that can go wrong with this.

The most helpful hints I could find were here and here.

Following this advice, I edited my ~/.vmware/config file to look like this:

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
xkeymap.keysym.ISO_Level3_Shift = 0x138
xkeymap.keysym.braceleft = 0x1a
xkeymap.keysym.braceright = 0x1b

I think the second line is the most important for my German keyboard, as it maps the AltGr key.