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MagnoAlberto
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‎02-23-2012 10:20 AM

Weird Behavior in the Mouse Pointer on VMs in Remote Desktop (RDS) session

Hi...

I have observed a weird behavior of the mouse pointer. Virtual machines with Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 running on VMware Workstation 8 in a Remote Desktop session, the mouse pointer is displayed with the hand icon, and at times the pointer simply disappears, being necessary to ungrab the VM screen and grab the VM again.

I did several tests with VMware Worksation 7 and the problem does not occur.

I found some posts suggesting to change the "mks.noHostCursor = TRUE" but does not seem very interesting because it loses significantly the response time of the pointer.

Is there any fix for it?

Thanks!

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hbato
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‎02-23-2012 09:13 PM

Have you installed vmware tools already?

Regards, Harold

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MagnoAlberto
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‎02-24-2012 03:41 AM

hi hbato... of course =]

However, if I uninstall vmware-tools, behavior is normal but I lose the resources offered by vmware tools.

Apparently I found an alternative but have not tested completely. If I turn "Adjust for best appearance" in "Advanced System settings" on the VM, behavior is normal. If confirmed this alternative, solves a problem but causes another problem because a Windows Server needs to be configured to "Ajust for best performance" for obvious reasons.

What's really interesting about this problem is does not happen in VMware WST 7.

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hbato
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‎02-24-2012 06:56 AM

Well we really have encountered a lot of bugs in WS8. As what they say "not all the latest are the greatest". Smiley Happy

Regards, Harold
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erblemoof
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‎08-26-2012 08:59 AM

I don't have a solution, but I figured out it's attributed to whether you have the mouse pointer shadow disabled or not:

Disabled = Hand / wrong pointer

Enabled = Correct pointer

Kjaps
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‎11-08-2012 02:44 AM

Hi,

I am experiencing the same issue with VMWare Workstation 9. Did you find any solution to this?

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djest
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‎11-16-2012 07:03 AM

Seems like if you go to Advanced System Settings in the VM and enable the "Show shadows under mouse pointer" option in Visual Effects, that it turns it back to a pointer instead of a hand.

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scuthber
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‎05-20-2013 01:59 AM

Seems to be the same in Workstation 9 too.

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