I am using VMware Player 3.0.1 and various distributions of Linux (OpenSuSE 11.2, Ubuntu 9.10, Linux Mint 8, PCLinuxOS 2009.2 Gnome) with various window managers (OpenBox, LXDE, Gnome, KDE4) and several guests (Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP Pro, Windows 7 Pro). All of the Linux kernels are between 2.6.28 and 2.6.31. CPU hardware includes AMD Athlon 64-2100, AMD Athlon 64 x2-3800 and AMD Phenom II x2 550 Black Edition. I have had VMware Tools from (c)2005 up through the current release installed.
When the mouse is moving in the VM, the bottom status bar constantly flickers between "Ctrl-G to grab" and "Crtrl-Alt to release" and it is virtually impossible to click on anything. The mouse works OK when not in the VM. These are separate host systems and at least 15 Windows VMs have been tried.
I have an AMD Athlon 64 x2-5200+ system with OpenSuSE 10.3 (kernel 2.6.22-19) and VMware Player 3.0.1 installed and these very same VMs work just fine on it.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?
TIA,
john
