Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#13977 closed defect (invalid)
Mouse doesn't track, Suse SLES 11 sp2 -> conflict with VMWare tools
| Reported by: | Glenn Burkhardt | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.26 |
| Keywords: | mouse SUSE SLES | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Windows |
Description
The mouse cursor appears in the VBox window, but it doesn't track the mouse movement. Its position only changes if the left mouse button is clicked.
This might be a regression of bug 7946.
Host is Win7, guest is Suse Linux SLES 11 sp2.
Attachments (17)
Change History (25)
by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | WMS-2015-03-21-17-46-26.log added |
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by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | Xorg.0.log added |
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comment:1 by , 10 years ago
Could you please upload xorg.conf from the guest? I can more or less guess what it must look like, but seeing it would still be nice.
by , 10 years ago
by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | xorg.conf.saxsave added |
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by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | xorg.conf.install added |
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by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | xorg.conf.md5 added |
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by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | xorg.conf.AfterVMwareToolsInstall added |
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by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | xorg.conf.BeforeVMwareToolsInstall added |
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comment:4 by , 10 years ago
I am slightly surprised that there is not version of xorg.conf created by the VirtualBox Guest Additions, either current nor a back-up. Did you do anything special when you installed the Additions? Can you check whether the file /var/log/vboxadd-install-x11.log exists on the guest and whether it contains anything?
by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | vboxadd-install-x11.log added |
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by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | vboxadd-install.log added |
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comment:5 by , 10 years ago
The 'vboxadd-install-x11.log' file is a bit sparse. This virtual machine was created from a .ova file that VMWare created. X11 didn't come up after I installed guest additions, so I used sax2 to configure it. I've actually installed guest additions twice, the second time after upgrading the VirtualBox code.
There were no errors reported (or, at least, that I noticed) when I was running the guest additions installation. But I see now that there were complaints about the kernel configuration in the 'vboxadd-install.log'. I'll try to correct that later today, and try a guest additions install again, unless you have other suggestions.
comment:7 by , 10 years ago
That has fixed it. I've attached a log of the 'vboxadd-x11' execution, and the new xorg.conf files that were created.
Wonderful!
There was an added complication. The Vmware 'vmware-tools' service was configured to run. It changes the xorg.conf file on startup (see attached file 'etc-X11-ls.png'). That was probably the problem all along - the VBox additions probably updated 'xorg.conf' properly, but then the 'vmware-tools' service undid the change.
Thank you very much!
by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | vbox-setup.txt added |
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by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | xorg.2.conf added |
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by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | xorg.conf.vbox added |
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by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | etc-X11-ls.PNG added |
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comment:8 by , 10 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
| Summary: | Mouse doesn't track, Suse SLES 11 sp2 → Mouse doesn't track, Suse SLES 11 sp2 -> conflict with VMWare tools |
Thanks for the feedback. Then if you don't mind I will close this as a configuration problem.
vbox.log