Well, the ova came from an Italian University, so it's more likely the Medicis are involved than de Sade.
I've tried 3 mice: logitec 3 button USB
microsoft 3 button USB (it was $9, can't get much cheaper)
microsoft bluetooth
same results with them all.
I'll see what i can do to get networking going, but this is not the only GUI-based VM this has happened with, The others were a while ago and had slipped my mind. Getting feebleminded, I guess. Or maybe frustrated that almost 60 year old technology (mice) isn't fully supported.
Pardon my ignorance, but what key sequence should kill the gui? I almost never use Linux with a GUI so I am unfamiliar (and unimpressed) with Gnome.