Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse package

  1. Bug #285305
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 285305

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 285305] Re: vmmouse doesn't work with input hotplug

Tux [2008-10-24 10:25 -0000]:
> Is this realy still a problem?? I am using Intrepid RC on Vmware
> Workstation 5.5.0 and do not have this problem. The mouse releases with
> Ctrl-Alt and when I click into the VM it grabs my mouse. This also works
> with the livecd, an upgrade from 8.04 to Intrepid RC and with the latest
> updates.

That's the behaviour of the standard mouse driver, i. e. which isn't
aware at all about the virtualization. The point of vmmouse is that
you *don't* have to click into the VM first, you just have one mouse
pointer for both the host and the guest (works with VMWare and KVM,
not sure about VirtualBox).