Is VNC in VMWare workstation 6.0.1-build 55017 broken?

[Vile]

After updating existing VMWare WS 6.0 to 6.0.1 got some problems with VNC connectivity. VNC now connects much better than before, but mouse doesn't work properly. It just goes to the upper right corner of the window on each pointer move through VNC console.

Am I doing something wrong?

[crisponions]

I am having the same problem as you are. Linux host and Linux guest. Since I upgraded to 6.0.1 the mouse slowly moves to right hand corner. I saw this before in 6.0 but it would only do this before you installed vmware tools. What gives?

[admin]

Make sure that the VMware mouse driver is installed and functioning.

Check this thread:

[crisponions]

NEVERMIND: found the fix. for some reason the vmmouse_drv.so was not in the same place Xorg was looking for its drivers. I searched for the vmmouse module, copied it to the directory Xorg was looking (cp /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.1/vmmouse_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input), then changed my xorg.conf file to use the vmmouse. Seems to working great now.

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Ok, here is the difference between my 2 Xorg.logs.

This is from a CentOS5 VM that the VNC mouse works in

(II) LoadModule: "vmmouse"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so

(II) Module vmmouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

(II) VMWARE(0): VMMOUSE module was loaded

(II) VMWARE(0): vmmouse is available

(II) VMWARE(0): VMMOUSE DEVICE_INIT

(II) VMWARE(0): VMMOUSE DEVICE_ON

(II) VMWARE(0): vmmouse enabled

This is from a Mandrake 2008.0 VM that the mouse doesnt work in (note there was no mention of vmmouse in the file, only mouse)

(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"

(**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"

(II) LoadModule: "mouse"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so

(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

(==) VMWARE(0): Silken mouse enabled

(**) Mouse1: Device: "/dev/mouse"

(**) Mouse1: Protocol: "ps/2"

(**) Mouse1: Core Pointer

(**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

(==) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50

(**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5

(**) Mouse1: Buttons: 9

(**) Mouse1: Sensitivity: 1

(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)

(II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

Any ideas where to go from here? I didn't see much in that thread as how to fix the problem on a Linux VM.