VirtualBox

Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#13977 closed defect (invalid)

Mouse doesn't track, Suse SLES 11 sp2 -> conflict with VMWare tools

Reported by: Glenn Burkhardt Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 4.3.26
Keywords: mouse SUSE SLES Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: Windows

Description

The mouse cursor appears in the VBox window, but it doesn't track the mouse movement. Its position only changes if the left mouse button is clicked.

This might be a regression of bug 7946.

Host is Win7, guest is Suse Linux SLES 11 sp2.

Attachments (17)

WMS-2015-03-21-17-46-26.log (139.3 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
vbox.log
messages (5.9 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
/var/log/messages from guest
release.txt (109 bytes ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
lsb_release
Xorg.0.log (13.4 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
Xorg.0.2.log (13.4 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
X11 log
xorg.conf (4.2 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
xorg.conf.saxsave (4.5 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
xorg.conf.install (5.2 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
xorg.conf.md5 (36 bytes ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
xorg.conf.AfterVMwareToolsInstall (6.0 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
xorg.conf.BeforeVMwareToolsInstall (4.2 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
vboxadd-install-x11.log (73 bytes ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
vboxadd-install.log (302.6 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
vbox-setup.txt (635 bytes ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
xorg.2.conf (6.0 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
xorg.conf.vbox (4.5 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.
etc-X11-ls.PNG (19.8 KB ) - added by Glenn Burkhardt 9 years ago.

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Change History (25)

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: WMS-2015-03-21-17-46-26.log added

vbox.log

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: messages added

/var/log/messages from guest

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: release.txt added

lsb_release

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: Xorg.0.log added

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: Xorg.0.2.log added

X11 log

comment:1 by Michael Thayer, 9 years ago

Could you please upload xorg.conf from the guest? I can more or less guess what it must look like, but seeing it would still be nice.

comment:2 by Michael Thayer, 9 years ago

And any back-up versions of the file.

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: xorg.conf added

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: xorg.conf.saxsave added

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: xorg.conf.install added

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: xorg.conf.md5 added

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

in reply to:  2 comment:3 by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Replying to michael:

And any back-up versions of the file.

done.

comment:4 by Michael Thayer, 9 years ago

I am slightly surprised that there is not version of xorg.conf created by the VirtualBox Guest Additions, either current nor a back-up. Did you do anything special when you installed the Additions? Can you check whether the file /var/log/vboxadd-install-x11.log exists on the guest and whether it contains anything?

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: vboxadd-install-x11.log added

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: vboxadd-install.log added

comment:5 by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

The 'vboxadd-install-x11.log' file is a bit sparse. This virtual machine was created from a .ova file that VMWare created. X11 didn't come up after I installed guest additions, so I used sax2 to configure it. I've actually installed guest additions twice, the second time after upgrading the VirtualBox code.

There were no errors reported (or, at least, that I noticed) when I was running the guest additions installation. But I see now that there were complaints about the kernel configuration in the 'vboxadd-install.log'. I'll try to correct that later today, and try a guest additions install again, unless you have other suggestions.

comment:6 by Michael Thayer, 9 years ago

See if running "/etc/init.d/vboxadd-x11 setup" as root helps.

comment:7 by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

That has fixed it. I've attached a log of the 'vboxadd-x11' execution, and the new xorg.conf files that were created.

Wonderful!

There was an added complication. The Vmware 'vmware-tools' service was configured to run. It changes the xorg.conf file on startup (see attached file 'etc-X11-ls.png'). That was probably the problem all along - the VBox additions probably updated 'xorg.conf' properly, but then the 'vmware-tools' service undid the change.

Thank you very much!

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: vbox-setup.txt added

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: xorg.2.conf added

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: xorg.conf.vbox added

by Glenn Burkhardt, 9 years ago

Attachment: etc-X11-ls.PNG added

comment:8 by Michael Thayer, 9 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed
Summary: Mouse doesn't track, Suse SLES 11 sp2Mouse doesn't track, Suse SLES 11 sp2 -> conflict with VMWare tools

Thanks for the feedback. Then if you don't mind I will close this as a configuration problem.

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