Ubuntu as guest OS has no difference in cursor speed when inside or outside gues directly on host machine OR via RDP I tried both vmware-tools and open-vm-tools. Any clue? Also, I tried to connect remotely but straight to the FreeBSD guest via VNC build in vmware feature - the mouse the cursor moves only diagonally to the bottom. Can't edit post Also the said ubuntu guest OS has vmware-tools installed.
Please show the xorg. My guess is that it has an AllowEmptyInput setting, which will cause a draggy mouse pointer. Indeed AllowEmptyInput was enabled per default.
In fact there was no xorg. I used the xorg. Now something strange is happening. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X. It will override the driver's preferences which can cause the X server not to run if the host doesn't support the depth. Came to the conclusion to of the problem: Xorg can't load vmmouse driver: says Code:. Module ABI major version 4 doesn't match the server's version 7. Click to expand Mouse click or keyboard don't get recognized until the mouse pointer isn't moved a bit :.
Came to the conclusion to of the problem: Xorg can't load vmmouse driver: says "Module ABI major version 4 doesn't match the server's version 7 ".
Version of xorg server is 1. If it's not the version for the 7. Works just fine now. I already tried a lot of solutions I found online e. I think it's a problem in Ubuntu and not in the virtualization applications. Does anyone have a solution for this? You'll get a couple warnings that you won't be able to use your mouse with the host anymore, and just click OK.
Now you can only use your mouse within the VM whether it's full-screen or in windowed mode. Hit Ctrl-G on your keyboard to get rid of the host mouse icon and fully immerse yourself in the VM. Now the focus is back to your host OS. Now everything is back to normal. The above settings will enable a virtual vmware mouse with 20 buttons. However, in certain situations vmware is not mapping the mouse event arriving at the host to the correct guest event.
Start and run the following in the guest os. Run xev grep -i "button" in a terminal. Move to the spawned window, click the buttons you wanna assign or swap once. The reassigning of mouse button events can be done with eg. You can't emulate more than 3 buttons in VirtualBox and VMware. This is because it presents to the guest system an super standard 3-button mouse. It could be possible if they like, but right now the answer is no.
So, why it works in Windows? Because the Linux and Windows implementations follow different roadmap, and "each front-end has its own way of getting at mouse input" source. This can be seen in another question of Super User. Set to middle mouse click instead of the default instant viewer.
Tested this on Windows 10 host should be the same on ubuntu , VMware workstation player 12, with a logitech m mouse.
If you do this, your mouse will only work on the virtual machine, so you'll need to know the keyboard shortcuts to enable and disable, unless you have two mouses, or a touchpad and a mouse, like in a notebook. When you do it, the mouse will only work on the virtual machine. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
Learn more. Asked 7 years, 8 months ago. Active 2 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 34k times. Virtualization applications: VMware Workstation Improve this question. Jacob Vlijm Then move to the window, click your mouse forward and back button. Please add the output to your question or to ubuntu pastebin for readability.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Possible workaround: After editing the VM's. Improve this answer. MattSayar MattSayar 2 2 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. Yes, I already tried adding usb. But I think this is more a workaround than a solution.. It works if you plan on working exclusively in the VM for a significant period of time, but in the end isn't very user friendly — MattSayar. Windows 10 Host, Ubuntu VMWare Adding those three lines worked for me.
Specifically the useBasicMouse line was important. Without it the solution still applies but my mouse was randomly jumping back into the host OS even with the guest in full screen.
Worked perfectly for me! All I had to do is edit the.
