This article was written by Duncan Epping over at Yellow-Bricks.com. I have posted here purely for my own ability to find this setting in the future. I needed it today while building vShield Manager VM across a WAN Link. Every time I tried to type the username admin it entered it as aaadddmmmiiinnn obviously very frustrating. This is how you fix it. Power off the VM Edit Settings Click the Options Tab Click “General” Click “Configuration Parameters” Click “Add Row” Enter the name: keyboard.typematicMinDelay Enter the value: 2000000