Mouse? We don't need no stinking mouse! (HELP!)

[wmartinocp]

Or rather, we really don't want the mouse.  I have a few VM's that don't know who this GUI dude is and get utterly confused (read: halt and catch fire) when Fusion gives them mouse input.

*THIS IS EXPECTED BEHAVIOR FOR THIS SOFTWARE*

In the real world there is no way for a mouse to be connected to the thing, and I need a way to emulate that in Fusion (or I need to find a different solution ).  How can I evict the mouse from a VM?  Just completely disable the thing, no mouse, only keyboard and display?

I've seen a few discussions about this but no answers, and the ones that came up in search were rather old.

[RickShu]

Hi wmartinocp,

If you really want to disable the mouse in your VMs, you can disable it inside the guest. (Device Manager-->Mice and other pointing devices). After that, you will still see the mouse cursor in guest, but any click event will not be responded inside the guest.

I hope I've understood your pain correctly.

Regards,

-Rick

[RDPetruska]

Try adding the line to your vmx file (with the VM powered off - not just suspended - and Fusion closed):

vmmouse.present = "FALSE"

[wmartinocp]

Unfortunately no, as your response is based on the assumption that the VM has something called Device Manager.  Which it doesn't, as it has no gui, and no concept of a mouse.

[wmartinocp]

Changed setting in the vmx file per instruction.

It fixes the crashing issue as it doesn't appear to send mouse input anymore, but Fusion still captures the mouse, which is annoying.

So this has moved from broken to annoying, which is not a bad improvement.

[RDPetruska]

OK, that's good to hear.  There are other parameters for not grabbing the mouse.

Those (at least on Windows for Workstation and Player) are in the preferences.ini file, though, not the individual VM's file... so it *may* apply to all VMs running on your host, I'm not sure.  You can try adding them to the vmx file first, though.

pref.motionUngrab="False"

pref.motionGrab="False"

See How can I have a Windows 7 VMware guest without mouse support? - Super User and sanbarrow.com