snow leopard left idle, keyboard + mouse not working

[pianodancer]

Hi, I successfully installed snow leopard 10.6.2 in vmware workstation 7. I have one problem is that when I left virtual machine running at the background (lets say 15mins) and I wanted to go back to Mac OS, the mouse pointer is gone and the keyboard doesn't seem to work either. Is there a solution to this?

[mahmood]

Hi, I successfully installed snow leopard 10.6.2 in vmware workstation 7. I have one problem is that when I left virtual machine running at the background (lets say 15mins) and I wanted to go back to Mac OS, the mouse pointer is gone and the keyboard doesn't seem to work either. Is there a solution to this?

 

open the .vmx folder and add or edit these values (if they are not there add them ) if they are there then change the values to tRUE :

 

 

keyboard.vusb.enable = "TRUE"

mouse.vusb.enable = "TRUE"

smc.present = "FALSE"

 

the .vmx file is in your vmware virtual OS folder.

[MSoK]

Hi, I successfully installed snow leopard 10.6.2 in vmware workstation 7. I have one problem is that when I left virtual machine running at the background (lets say 15mins) and I wanted to go back to Mac OS, the mouse pointer is gone and the keyboard doesn't seem to work either. Is there a solution to this?

Mahmood's instructions are fine, however, a couple of additional .vmx parameters may help, and if you have installed the darwin.iso from the wks7 zip, then try these .vmx settings:

 

keyboard.vusb.enable = "TRUE" try setting to "FALSE"

mouse.vusb.enable = "TRUE" try setting to "FALSE"

monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"

monitor.virtual_mmu = "software"

 

Also check your enery saver settings in system preferences are set as follows:

Computer Sleep: Never

Display Sleep: Never or 3 Hrs (as it complains when you set it to Never)

 

Hope this helps!