> Hi,
>
> I've installed Linux in MS VPC 2007 and everything worked fine for a
> while until I changed the guest screen resolution from 800x600 to
> 1024x768. Now, the mouse isn't captured by the guest anymore!
>
> If I click the screen, nothing happens and the guest pointer just
> sits there. I can drag across the guest window and even copy the
> selected part and paste them in a host machine application - so I
> know that VPC is seeing the mouse. I just can't have the guest
> capture the mouse anymore.
>
> The keyboard works fine and since it's Linux, Virtual Machine
> Additions isn't installed.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help!
>

> Oblivion wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I've installed Linux in MS VPC 2007 and everything worked fine for a
> > while until I changed the guest screen resolution from 800x600 to
> > 1024x768. Now, the mouse isn't captured by the guest anymore!
>
> > If I click the screen, nothing happens and the guest pointer just
> > sits there. I can drag across the guest window and even copy the
> > selected part and paste them in a host machine application - so I
> > know that VPC is seeing the mouse. I just can't have the guest
> > capture the mouse anymore.
>
> > The keyboard works fine and since it's Linux, Virtual Machine
> > Additions isn't installed.
>
> > Thanks in advance for the help!
>
> Oblivion,
>
> I just had the very same problem. It turns out there's some kind of
> driver bug in some of the latest kernel updates. When your boot loader
> is running, try booting into an earlier kernel (whichever you were using
> before the mouse stopped working). You should find that everything works.
>
> Will the kernel problem be fixed in these distributions? I have no idea;
> I'm no Linux guru.
>
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> David Trimboli
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