iulianco
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Multiple input devices (trackballs or mouse devices)

I'm using VSphere 7 and Horizon 8, on some of the guest Windows 10 VMs, I plan to use dual trackballs or mouse devices from a client Horizon machine, have written software that handles them such that you can use both at the same time and have independent "cursor" or input capability and that's fine on a physical machine.

Using VMs though, I don't seem to have distinct mice/trackball devices as such, both work but appear as a single device, I think it might be "VMware USB Pointing Device" (there is also a PS/2 VMware Pointing Device but I don't think that's used in our case).

Is there a way I could reconfigure the VM such that I see both devices inside Device Manager? Have looked it up and found some mention to add to the .vmx file an option usb.generic.allowHID = "TRUE", have added it with VCenter to the VM in question, but doesn't seem to have had the desired effect.

Thank you in advance.

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