Mouse does not work inside VM when accessing host running vmware workstation with Remote Desktop

[bimmerdriver]

I'm recently upgraded to the latest version of vmware workstation on a computer running windows 7 professional. I typically access this computer using remote desktop. Since the upgrade, the mouse does not work when I'm trying to use a VM. I have several VMs which are various versions of windows and also *nix. This previously worked. Is there a fix for this problem or do I need to downgrade?

[bimmerdriver]

I downgraded to vmware player 6.0.7 and this problem is not there. It seems that some changes introduced to vmware since 6.0.7 are causing this problem. Is this a documented bug? Is there a work-around for it?

[pwolf]

I did not see this issue with the latest version of Vmware Workstation on a Windows 2008R2 host, which I never accessed physically but only via RDP.

Maybe you have a very sophisticated graphics card, which has hardware acceleration support by the latest VMware WS, which daoes not work over RDP. Try to disable hardware acceleration.

[bimmerdriver]

Thanks for the reply. The computer is old and does not have a sophisticated display adapter.