I am having problem when I go to Fusion from Leopard. I have a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard connected when in Leopard. As soon as I go to VMWare fusion , the mouse gets disconnected and so does the keyboard. And after that I have lost access even when I go to back to the Leopard. Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
Thanks and I look forward to your reply.
...Cyberphotog
I would make sure that you do not have the "Automatically Connect USB Devices" check box checked on the target Virtual Machine Setting sheet under USB and I would not attempt to manually connect the Apple Bluetooth Host Controller to the Virtual Machine either.
You cannot simultaneously useBluetooth, IR, iSight accessories in both Guest and Host OS.
When Guest VM is launched, if Bluetooth, IR, iSight etc are enabled in Guest VM settings, then Guest VM takes the control of these accessories over the Host OS. And if you want to use these in Host Mac OS, you will need to disconnect these from Guest OS. You cannot simultaneously use these accessories in both Guest and Host OS.
I suggest uncheck the option 'Connected' for Bluetooth USB in VMware Fusion Guest VM Setting or in Fusion Windows Guest VM Taskbar (Right side corner) select the respective Bluetooth USB icon and select disconnect. Now you should be able to use Bluetooth Mouse and keyboard in both Guest Windows OS and Host Mac OS.
I'm having this same problem. Bluetooth devices such as a mouse will fail after Fusion is run with a MS Vista guest OS. I'm not using BT within the guest, so the USB/BT icon is not "connected". The BT device becomes non-communicative after the Fusion session is suspended or terminated and the macbook is put to sleep. Upon wake up, the mouse will not connect. A soft boot does not solve the problem, but a hard boot (power cycle) does.
I certainly did try the things suggested in earlier threads. This is a logitech V470 BT mouse and no, I didn't install any software with it. It will work fine for weeks at a time until I run a guest OS and then put the machine to sleep. I usually suspend the VM. I haven't tried shutting down the guest completely before putting the macbook to sleep.
I certainly did try the things suggested in earlier threads. This is a logitech V470 BT mouse and no, I didn't install any software with it. It will work fine for weeks at a time until I run a guest OS and then put the machine to sleep. I usually suspend the VM. I haven't tried shutting down the guest completely before putting the macbook to sleep.
IMO, Windows still has issues with sleep/suspend/hibernate and Bluetooth. I have several client's with physical Windows machines (both XP and Vista) and Bluetooth keyboards and mice. All of them have problems with the kb and mouse when the machines wakes from sleep. The machines actually don't respond to kb or mouse, they end up pressing the power button to wake the machine, but the system still does not acknowledge the kb or mouse. Have to do a hard reset or plug in a USB KB or mouse to be able to do a restart. So we've had to compromise to either not have the system sleep, or the client does a shutdown at night. Me personally, I shut down my VMs before putting my Mac to sleep and have not ever had BT problems. Inconvinient, but seems to be the most reliable.
i have the same exact issue as you with my v470 mouse aswell. I'll have to sue bluetooth discover to readd the mouse inorer to get it working agian. This is pretyt annoying. I don't even have the bluetooth controoler connected in Fusion to the VM.
On further analysis, the BT mouse problem probably has nothing to do with Fusion. The mouse won't connect randomly upon wake from sleep and in the trials that I kept track of there was a correlation between running Fusion prior to having the mouse become "lost". I now have cases were the mouse isn't detectable by OS/X Leopard even when I haven't run Fusion, so I don't think Fusion is the culprit. This now looks like a Macbook/Leopard problem. I'm sorry for any confusion.
