Problems with mouse in guest, secondary monitor and disabled mouse integration -> working after 4.3.10, please open new bugs for new issues

[Zoltan Fekete]

On host, two monitors, configured in extended desktop mode (e.g. I have one desktop spanning across two monitors)

I have a guest OS that does not support guest addons (Linux based Android x86). The mouse integration is disabled in the guest settings. When I move the guest VM window to my secondary monitor, the mouse capturing functioniality starts acting realy weard (e.g. when I click inside the guest VM window to capture the mouse point, the mouse pointer appers on the host in the left/top position on the primary monitor, and the movement of the mouse cursor in the guest window stops and/or is erratic).

Everything works fine as long as my guest VM window is on the primary monitor.

Host OS is Windows 7 x64.

[Zoltan Fekete]

How to replicate:

• You need a windows OS host with 2 (or more) monitors, configured in extended desktop mode (e.g. desktop spanns across all display devices)
• Create any guest VM (e.g. linux) and disable mouse integration features, don't install guest addons to the guest
• Start the guest VM, and when boot up, move the VM window to the secondary monitor
• Now click inside the guest VM window to capture the pointer, try to move the pointer in the guest VM

[Jonathan Liu]

I can reproduce this bug on VirtualBox 4.1 with Windows 7 64-bit.

[muttzcuttz]

I'd like to add that I have the same problem, host is Windows 7 x64. Problems have only started since the release of 4.0

ANY guest OS I use on my secondary monitor is totally unusuable. As soon as the host VM is powered on the VM window jumps to the bottom right of the secondary screen as soon as I try to move the VM window over, then after I try to move the VM Window I cannot. Other times the mouse tracking is way off, as if the mouse if in the guest but the cursor is pointing elsewhere.

I cannot use VirtualBox 4.x and am stuck on the last release of 3.2 as I have to have my VMs on my secondary monitor.

[rikky]

Same problem here with Virtual Box 4.1.2 on Win 7 x64. The guest additions are installed, but without the xserver related stuff - I don't have a xserver installed.

vboxguest and vboxsf modules are loaded, but do not prevent the problem.

[ebonweaver]

confirming this bug still exists in 4.1.6 on Win 7 64bit host using any Windows Guest. Unable to put guest window on second monitor without mouse freaking out. Must have guest window on primary display. It would be nice if a bug 7 months old received any sort of attention.

[Don Gateley]

Still true on 4.2.6 so I guess there is no interest among the developers to fix this. Sad, that.

[Michael Thayer]

DonGateley, I understand if you are frustrated, but please see the notes on the main bug-tracker page<1> for an explanation of why some issues do not get fixed fast (or even at all), even if they seem important to you.

<1> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker

[Michael Thayer]

Since you have found a duplicate of this bug, rather than adding depressed comments to both you could try to decide which has the most information and add the information from the other ticket. That would save us time when we do find some to look at this issue.

[billlater]

Same problem here with Virtual Box 4.3.10 r93012 on Win 7 x64 host when install any Linux guest. After install guest and installing guest additions the problem disappears

[Michael Thayer]

Please give this build a try:

https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-4.3.11-93590-Win.exe

[Don Gateley]

Fixed! Thanks, whoever you are.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

[Linuxhippy2]

I experience this issue with 5.2.12 on Linux - running a multi-monitor setup with mouse pointer integration disabled.

Please see: ​https://youtu.be/Sla4MZjex8U The mouse pointer seems to be hitting "invisible walls" (as described in bug 7914), which eventually disappear when moving the mouse fast enough arround for some time, while others appear.

This is extremly bothersome - I need to disable mouse integration in order to get some mouse+keyboard combinations working my window manager would intercept otherwise.

[Michael Thayer]

This does not look like the same issue: it is a different host system and a large time difference, so you should open a new bug for it, with a log file, which can contain valuable information, attached. First though it is best to look at and ask on the forums to see if anyone else has found similar issues. There is strength in numbers when it comes to solving software problems.

I was not able to quite get the issue from the recording; providing more written details about the set-up would be helpful. There is a known issue (not a bug) that a guest operating system which cannot properly handle tablet/touch screen input behaves in a similar way (the guest cursor stops moving before reaching the edge of the window and the host cursor reappears beyond). That is an operating system problem.