Mouse Not Working Upon Restore

[dlee668]

Hello,

I have restored a virtual machine onto ESXi 7.0, but the mouse is unresponsive. When I open the VM to full-screen, vm is also unresponsive.

VMX file shows:

usb.present="false"

usb.vbluetooth.startConnected = "TRUE"

uuid.bios = "56 4d 99 28 66 84 2c c5-3c ad 37 ce d0 97 f0 25"

uuid.location = "56 4d 35 9b cc e7 25 24-c6 18 8e 35 3c 43 f8 db"

When I set usb.present to "TRUE", I am still having issues, with the VM even blue screening.

Any advice on this?

[NicolasAlauzet]

What version is the VM?

If its older, did you try to do a vHardware Upgrade?

[a_p_]

Can you confirm that VMware Tools have been installed after setting the correct Guest OS in the VM's settings, i.e. after fixing the issues from your previous question?

André

[dlee668 · Accepted solution]

Turns out, no need for VMWare Tools.

Just added USB controller to VMs and now work as intended. Guess it cannot be done via configuring vmx file.