Restrict mouse to VM window in VMWare Player (16.2.2 build-19200509)

[r01100011]

Hello,

I want to use my VM for playing older games, which are not optimized for my widescreen monitor and Windows 10.

I was wondering if there is a way for me to restrict the mouse to the window of the VM. Not being able to do this really breaks some games.

I read posts about this being possible in VMWare Fusion, but I am not seeing anything for VMWare Workstation Player.

Is this a paid feature?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

[bluefirestorm]

In the Workstation Pro preferences there is a checkbox "Automatically grab and ungrab the mouse". Unchecking that probably has the desired effect that you are looking for

Since Player does not have that checkbox, go to %APPDATA%\VMware\preferences.ini file, add or change the following lines

pref.motionGrab = "FALSE"
pref.motionUngrab = "FALSE"

As it is in the preferences, it affects all VMs.

[r01100011]

Thank you! This is EXACTLY what I am looking for. Really appreciate your help!