VM cannot focus by mouse (move or click) / SMP only -> fixed in 3.0.6

[XoK]

Before version 3.0.2, I did not have this problem.

VM cannot focus by mouse, e.g, If I pass over the VM screen the screensaver is still activated.

Even if I click with the mouse on the black area, it does not do anything...

Although If set the focus and click on any key the VM is activated (screensaver goes away)

Sometime this behaviour happens in the Guest without the screensaver, e.g., cannot click with the mouse on the windows but if I do a ALT+TAB, everything starts to work properly.

[XoK]

VBOX Guest on the second screen (Dualhead)

[XoK]

Made a regression to the VirtualBox 3.0.0 problems persists.

Further Notes:

The Guest randomly looses the focus, and cannot click on the VM until you press any key (e.g. CONTROL).

[XoK]

Made another regression to version 2.2.4 and everything stable now... :)

FYI, Hardware Information:

Notebook - ASUS M50SV HOST - Win XP SP3 Guest - Win 2003 R2 SP2

[michail]

Hello

Facing the same problem since upgrading to 3.0 I use an XP VM on top of an XP host.

Same behaviour as xok described. Sporadically but very annoying. I have not discovered any pattern first clicks work and then freeze... I might be wrong

It seems as if the mouse is not captured properly inside the VM windows and only the outer VM frame responds to it only by pressing the "ctrl-alt-del" menu item or by disabling and re-enabling the "Mouse Integration" things work out.

If I have the Mouse integration off it seems that the problem is bypassed.

regards Mike (great show in Athens - the t-shirt is great!)

[michail]

sorry but even with the "mouse integration" off the freezing happened once more

I pressed the tab on keyboard and worked me out of the freezing... could it be something with the keyboard and not with the mouse after all... I will try other buttons as well.

My keyboard is pretty clean with no sticky buttons (honestly)!!! ;-)

[michail]

spacebar works too...!!

[XoK]

Hello mpaigni,

Yes it is very annoying!...

You can do the following to test: Open Explorer.exe and then wait about 5 secs and then move around directories (left area) for about 10secs and you will lose the Focus in the VM!

Then you have to press any key (e.g. LEFT CONTROL, LEFT SHIFT, etc..) and once you press a key, you will gain Focus back! :)

I was forced to rollback to VirtualBox v2.2.4 because of this issue..

[XoK]

* You can do the following to test: Open Explorer.exe and then wait about 5 secs and then move around directories (left area) for about 10secs and you will lose the Focus in the VM!

NOTE: Move mouse cursor without clicking.

[quadcore]

Hello, i have the same problem...

Im using a Windows XP Guest (Fullscreen) on a Linux Host, Virtualbox 3.0.2.
Sometimes you cant click anything, then if you click alt+tab it works again...

Very annoying while multitabling online poker... :D

[XoK]

This behaviour still persists in VirtualBox v3.0.4

"Sometimes you cant click anything, then if you click alt+tab it works again... Very annoying while multitabling online poker... :D "

Just press left CTRL or SHIFT and it works... Yes, it is very annoying... :)

[vkb201]

Hello - I am seeing this as well with a WinXP SP3 guest running under RHEL5.3. The system has 12GB mem and 8 cores. I saw the issue under 3.02 and 3.04, but not under 2.24. The host is dual monitored and using Xinerama. Tab-alt works to unlock the mouse. I've tried appending 'force_async_tsc=1' to the modprobe line in /etc/init.d/vboxdrv with no luck.

[XoK]

ADDENDUM:

This behaviour is not happening with a VBOX Guest - Windows 2008 Server DataCenter SP1

[vkb201]

Hi All - I did some further testing on a FC9 host and was able to replicate the behavior that I saw on my RHEL5.3 host under VirtualBox v.3.0.4. However, the behavior only appeared when my guest was running more than one CPU. The mouse worked correctly in this version with only one CPU configured for the guest WinXP SP3.

[XoK]

Hello vkb201,

You are right.

I did not notice that I was using 2 processors, after I change to 1 processor, the weird behaviour went away...

(I used the VM Guest this morning and it did not hanged!)

[Sander van Leeuwen]

That should be fixed in 3.0.6. You can try the beta to confirm (​http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=21919)

[vkb201]

Hi All,

Though I no longer see this bug in my FC9 system running v.3.0.8 with a 2 proc WinXP guest, my RHEL5 box running 3.0.10 is still having problems. Any additional thoughts?

[Barron123]

I've been dealing with this as well with a WinXP SP3 guest running under RHEL5.3. The system has 12GB mem and 8 cores. I saw the issue under 3.02 and 3.04, but not under 2.24. The host is dual monitored and using Xinerama. Tab-alt works to unlock the mouse. I've tried appending 'force_async_tsc=1' to the ​norton 360 voucher line in /etc/init.d/vboxdrv with no good fortune.