VirtualBox

Opened 9 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#14595 closed defect (obsolete)

Mouse Integration hosed on VBox 5.0.4 for restored Ubuntu 15.04 guest

Reported by: p2 Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 5.0.4
Keywords: mouse integration cursor Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Mac OS X

Description

Macbook Pro running 10.10.5. Starting with VBox 5.0.4, I lose mouse integration for Ubuntu 15.04 guests restored from saved state.

Toggling the VBox Menu option Input->Mouse Integration restores the cursor, provided you do so soon after starting a saved guest.

I tried VBox 5.0.5, but it exhibits the same behaviour.

Again, VBox 5.0.2 works well in this regard.

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by p2, 9 years ago

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comment:1 by p2, 9 years ago

Also, the problem seems to clear if I uncheck the 'Enable 3D Acceleration' option under the guest's Display settings.

comment:2 by p2, 9 years ago

Same with VBox 5.0.6

comment:3 by Frank Mehnert, 9 years ago

Does rebooting the guest after you restored it from a saved state fix the mouse cursor integration? Not saying that this is the supposed way but still interesting to know.

comment:4 by p2, 9 years ago

If I switch sessions (Cntl-Alt-F2) and reboot, I get to the same fakakta state: the mouse cursor becomes invisible but does 'work' in that I can guess where it is and start apps, shutdown and so on.

However, it seems that toggling the Input->Mouse Integration menu option followed by resizing the VBox Guest Display window (by toggling the green OS X app window maximize button twice) gets things working again.

Weird science.

comment:5 by p2, 9 years ago

Same problem with VBox 5.0.8 with Ubuntu upgraded to 15.10.

comment:6 by p2, 9 years ago

VBox 5.0.10 is broken too.

To recap: toggling Input->Mouse Integration followed by minimizing, then maximizing the VBox guest window restores normal functionality.

Am I really the only one seeing this?

comment:7 by Mikko S, 9 years ago

I have very much similar problems. Also on

I just have not done the legwork yet to find or validate the tricks which would make the Mouse integration work. In the Mouse Integrated mode the mouse gets invisible on the guest widow area, but does trigger ui events.

What I have noticed is that the mouse integration is available when the pointing device (In Settings -> System -> Motherboard) is set to USB Tablet of Multi touch tablet. In both of these cases the Mouse Integration is available. When selected, the mouse integration hides the mouse pointer from the screen, but the mouse can be used by "guessing" its position. In both of these pointing device cases the VBox also offers a tablet's soft keyboard on the screen.

Could it be that the VBox somehow comes to configure the machine as being a tablet and not a computer with a real keyboard and with a pointing device which needs a caret?

When I configure a PS/2 mouse as the pointing device, the mouse cursor stays visible, but I do lose the Mose Integration as an option to select.

I am also unable to resize the guest screen size. View->Auto Resize Guest Display is selected, but disabled! When I drag the Mac Window bigger, the guest remains in its exact unmodified size. The Mac window resizing results in blank grey canvas outside the guest display. If I resize the mac window smaller than the guest screen, I get slider controls to scroll the guest display within the mac window.

View-->Virtual Screen size is set to 1024 x 768 and the selections to change anything are disabled.

cheers

  • mikko
Version 1, edited 9 years ago by Mikko S (previous) (next) (diff)

comment:8 by Mikko S, 9 years ago

Some quick searches revealed that this is probably related to the following bug report(s): 14781: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14781

(In case there is a connection between mouse integration and non-scalable window size): 14592: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14592

comment:9 by p2, 9 years ago

VBox 5.0.12 continues the bogosity and with no meaningful response to this issue after several months I'm forced to drop Ubuntu as a guest VM.

Maybe it's related, but the Cinnamon flavour of Linux Mint 17.3 (also a Debian bloodline distribution like Ubuntu) does NOT seem to exhibit any mouse integration or window problems with VirtualBox.

Instead, VBox 5.0.12 is failing to restore from saved state outright, but that's another bug.

I'm out. I'll stick to 5.0.10 and check back in a year or two. Good luck everyone!

Last edited 9 years ago by p2 (previous) (diff)

comment:10 by Michael Thayer, 9 years ago

Mikko S: can you still reproduce this? Do you see the same thing with different guests? Does auto-resize work before saving and restoring but not afterwards? Thank you.

comment:11 by Michael Thayer, 9 years ago

p2: I was unable to reproduce this in my first tests, but I reproduced and fixed something similar which may potentially have been the same issue in a different form. Would you like to give the current test builds<1> a try?

<1> Testbuilds

comment:12 by Michael Thayer, 9 years ago

I forgot to mention - you will have to save the state using the new build, as the error fixed involved creating saved states incorrectly. Just using the new build to restore a state saved with the old one is not enough.

comment:13 by Frank Mehnert, 7 years ago

Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed
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