VMware mouse problems

[Eric.C]

this must be one of the most retarded problems with VMware... but I can't get the mouse to work... when i move my mouse in the VMware window, it just jumps around the 4 four corners... the mouse click still works (top right selects spotlight, top left selects the apple menu) but i can't move the mouse anywhere other than the 4 corners... all other aspects of the system works fine... any ideas on how I can fix this?

 

relevant specs:

Host OS: Leopard

Guest OS: Tiger

Guest OS Type: WinNT

DVD: uphuck 10.4.9

VMware Fusion 2

[pencilcheck]

this must be one of the most retarded problems with VMware... but I can't get the mouse to work... when i move my mouse in the VMware window, it just jumps around the 4 four corners... the mouse click still works (top right selects spotlight, top left selects the apple menu) but i can't move the mouse anywhere other than the 4 corners... all other aspects of the system works fine... any ideas on how I can fix this?

 

relevant specs:

Host OS: Leopard

Guest OS: Tiger

Guest OS Type: WinNT

DVD: uphuck 10.4.9

VMware Fusion 2

yea, I got the same thing you got too. I tried to install iATKOS 5.0i and using different methods and install PS/2 finally got the keyboard to work but mouse is still jumping on the 4 corners of the screen.

I wonder is there is any fix to this?

[pencilcheck]

I found out that the actual problem might be that vmware can't capture the mouse correctly so that's why the mouse jumps on the corners of the screen. Because if I move my mouse it acts if it's not capture only underneath the screen.

And the most weird part is if I boot up and try to move my mouse before the pointer appears, it actually captures the first second (so the mouse actually moves) before it jumps back to the corners again...

Do anyone knows why? And the solution to that?

[qazw]

I dont mean to dig up an old thread here but i had problems finding the solution to this problem, and the thread was one of the first results i came accross when searching.

 

I came accross this issue running vmware 7.0 on windows 7 64bit on an AMD phenom II, i was using a usb mouse. I found that vmware usb service wouldnt run properly, so i removed the usb controller from the VM's config and it worked nicely.

 

Other tips i found along the way:

 

• "boot.plist not found" click the VM screen asap and press something before the counter runs down
  
• vmware complaining the cpu has shut down - change OS type / CPU acceleration options ( for me winnt and the last option for the CPU )
  
• always add paevm="true" to the bottom of your vmware config file
  
• the only version i found to work was Leopard-AMD-1.5.1
  

hope this helps

 

--Dan

[rtba2a]

Once again, sorry to dig up an old thread, but I feel like this is probably the closest thing to relevant I can find here.

 

My problem is this:

 

I'm using VMware Player 3.0.1 build-227600, booting from the "Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2].iso". The system will boot fine, and it gets to the installer with no problems. But then my mouse starts acting up. It sticks in the upper left corner. When i move it, it will wiggle a little bit, but stays in that corner. The keyboard still works fine, and i can get through certain parts of the install (Language and Introduction) but can't go further without the mouse. Additionally, using a USB mouse instead of the laptop touchpad or "nub" doesn't make a difference. Any thoughts?

 

Specs:

Laptop: Lenovo T61p

Host OS: Windows 7 32-bit

Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M

Processors: Intel Core2 Duo T9300 @ 2.5GHz (two of them)

[MSoK]

Once again, sorry to dig up an old thread, but I feel like this is probably the closest thing to relevant I can find here.

 

My problem is this:

 

I'm using VMware Player 3.0.1 build-227600, booting from the "Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2].iso". The system will boot fine, and it gets to the installer with no problems. But then my mouse starts acting up. It sticks in the upper left corner. When i move it, it will wiggle a little bit, but stays in that corner. The keyboard still works fine, and i can get through certain parts of the install (Language and Introduction) but can't go further without the mouse. Additionally, using a USB mouse instead of the laptop touchpad or "nub" doesn't make a difference. Any thoughts?

 

Specs:

Laptop: Lenovo T61p

Host OS: Windows 7 32-bit

Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M

Processors: Intel Core2 Duo T9300 @ 2.5GHz (two of them)

A common problem with Leopard, although you are not using a Retail version of OS X, try Donk's darwin.iso, and the relevant .vmx entries for mouse and keyboard as follows:

 

guestOS = "darwin-64" or "darwin"

ich7m.present = "TRUE"

keyboard.vusb.enable = "FALSE"

mouse.vusb.enable = "TRUE"

monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"

monitor.virtual_mmu = "software"

smc.present = "FALSE"

 

Link below for the darwin.iso and installation instructions for the darwin.iso:

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/365613323/VMwa...est_Package.zip

 

Hope this helps, MSoK.