Cursor loses focus in Windows on Workstation 12 Pro

[AndyWalldorff]

I run several VMs on a 64bit Windows laptop.  Recently (a couple of months?) I have noticed that my cursor loses focus or jumps to somewhere else, or just does something funky periodically.  I suspect this started when I upgraded to Workstation Pro, but can't say for sure.  The issue manifests itself in several ways, perhaps the easiest to explain is if I try to copy part of the path from windows explorer, I cannot do so.  The entire path will always end up selected.  Alternately when working in visual studio I will suddenly be typing somewhere unexpected.

Any ideas?

[rachelsunsm]

hava you update vmtools to the latest one bundled with WS?

if yes, what's the version of Workstation are you using and what's your guest os?

Could you upload a vmware.log when the issue happens for further investigation?

[AndyWalldorff]

I should be using the latest version of VMTools.  I update when prompted.  It looks like version  10.0.6.3595377 was installed on 5/20/16

I am running VMware® Workstation 12 Pro, version 12.1.1 build-3770994.

I have seen this behavior with both Windows 7 and Windows 2012 R2 guest OSes.

I attached a VMware.log file from this morning.  I started the VM, verified I was seeing the issue, then shut the VM back down before attaching.