VirtualBox

Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#6642 closed enhancement (fixed)

Implement mouse integration with console mode -> fixed in VirtualBox 3.2

Reported by: dma_k Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 3.1.6
Keywords: mouse console gpm Cc:
Guest type: Windows Host type: Linux

Description

The problem is described in the forum: with guest addons enabled, in console mode (with gpm installed) the mouse is captured. Desired behaviour: the mouse is traced only when it is rolled over the VirtualBox window and is not locked within the window (as I remember the same way as done in Xming).

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by dma_k, 14 years ago

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comment:1 by Michael Thayer, 14 years ago

Not quite sure what an X server in Windows has to do with this. Have you tried version 3.2 beta 1? It has USB tablet emulation which should do what you want.

comment:2 by dma_k, 14 years ago

  • I have updated to VirtualBox 3.2b
  • I have installed new Guest Additions (info window reports 3.2.0_BETA1 r60785)
  • I have tested both default text mode (80x25) and framebuffer mode (vga=0x317)

The result is: when system is booting the following message appears:

The Virtual Machine reports that the guest OS does not support mouse pointer integration in the current video mode. You need to capture the mouse in order to use inside the guest OS.

and mouse pointer in console is not properly integrated.

Additional information:

# uname -a
Linux test 2.6.32-3-686 #1 SMP

# fbset
mode "1024x768-76"
    # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz
    geometry 1024 768 1024 768 16
    timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4
    rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0
endmode

comment:3 by Michael Thayer, 14 years ago

Did you enable the absolute pointing device for the guest?

comment:4 by dma_k, 14 years ago

I think, you refer the changes in r28932. I failed to find this option (Enable absolute pointing device) in v3.2.0b1 (unfortunately, revision numbers differ from what you have in SVN – do you make build from different one?): I checked VM settings (System -> Motherboard) and also the VM main menu after machine is started. If you know the XML GuestPropertyName, I can trick VirtualBox machine description XML directly.

comment:5 by Michael Thayer, 14 years ago

<HID Pointing="USBTablet" Keyboard="PS2Keyboard"/>

Only change when VirtualBox and VBoxSVC are not running!!! In any case, the option should be present in the GUI in Beta 3 at least.

comment:6 by dma_k, 14 years ago

Confirmed: this feature is working in v3.2.0b1 after adding the following to configuration file as noted above:

<VirtualBox ...>
  <Machine ...>
    <Hardware ...>
      <HID Pointing="USBTablet" Keyboard="PS2Keyboard"/>
...

The bug can be closed. Looking forward for a stable release!

comment:7 by Michael Thayer, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
Summary: Implement mouse integration with console mode.Implement mouse integration with console mode -> fixed in VirtualBox 3.2

Thanks for the confirmation. Closing.

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