F9 as VMWare Server 1.x guest: mouse issues

[rweed]

I'm not sure where the fault lies here. Has anyone else tried F9 as a guest under VMware and had a mouse issue where the graphic mouse point and the actual click point do not match up?

I activated the 'display click point when CTRL is pressed' option so I can see how far off it is...it's not constant...it varies as to how far off it is.

I did find something of a work-around and that is to go full-screen on the guest and then move the pointer to all four corners of the screen. That lines up the graphic pointer and the click point. However, exit full screen and set focus to something other than VMware and then set it back and it's off again.

[globalmcs]

Were you able to fix your problem? I upgraded Fedora 8 to 9 and now I'm having the same mouse problem. The host is Vmware ESX Server 3.5

[rweed]

Originally Posted by globalmcs

Were you able to fix your problem? I upgraded Fedora 8 to 9 and now I'm having the same mouse problem. The host is Vmware ESX Server 3.5

I even tried VMware Tools from Workstation 6.0 and it didn't work. The vmware-config-tools.pl script does not recognize the version of Xorg that comes with F9 and, even if you force it by editing the script to make it look like 7.3, that driver doesn't work either.

I tried compiling the open vmware tools Open VMware Tools under F9 but I'm having some issues getting it to recognize that the X11 devel libs are installed.

If you come up with something, please post the solution. I think we might end up waiting for VMware to update their tools.
-Rick

[sovereignty68]

Same issue here. Has anyone able to fix it?

[scottro]

I'd try looking around the VMware forums. Sounds like you folks found a bug.

I wonder if it's just Fedora, and if so, caused by the latest and greatest xorg. For example, in KVM, I find that with Windows, the mouse is a bit laggy, but with various Linux distributions, it's not.

[boot_img]

Originally Posted by scottro

I'd try looking around the VMware forums. Sounds like you folks found a bug.

I wonder if it's just Fedora, and if so, caused by the latest and greatest xorg. For example, in KVM, I find that with Windows, the mouse is a bit laggy, but with various Linux distributions, it's not.

I found a solution on the VMWare boards.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/886835#886835

It worked for me. Scroll down tothe last comment by sunset, which I reproduce here for your convenience

I had a similar issue with a Fedora 8 host, running a Fedora 9 alpha guest with tools installed {server-1.0.4}.

The mouse had been OK until some kernel and xorg-x11 updates. Afterwards mouse pointer would move in same direction as the mouse but the highlighted part was 40-200 mm out. Solution was to {on the guest}:

* start a terminal

* telinit 3

* mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.older

* telinit 5

[rweed]

When you do the above procedure, do you have to use Ctrl+Alt to release the mouse focus from the vm?

[boot_img]

No you don't need to CTRL-ALT. You do this inside the Fedora 9 guest vm. The procedure should allow Xorg to reset to some default configuration (I haven't check to see how the new xorg.conf differes from the older one).

[weus]

I ran into it too, however instead of reverting to a default xorg.conf (I want a vmware screen driver), I commented the CorePointer line in the ServerLayout section

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#       InputDevice    "VMMouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Now the mouse clicks as it should.

Marc.

[marcinkk]

I foung something at:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/releas...n-Desktop.html

10.10. vmmouse Driver

Due to a bug in the shipping xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse driver, the mouse position may not be correctly positioned on a virtual machine guest's display. As a workaround until an update, add Option NoAutoAddDevices to the ServerFlags section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the guest machine. Create the section if necessary:

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option      "NoAutoAddDevices"
EndSection

Now mouse works ok

[rweed]

That's it! You're the man!

-Rick