Mouse not recognized by Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

[micheler]

Hi,

on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Kubuntu does not recognize my standard USB mouse. No problem with Kubuntu 6.06 or 6.10.
Is there a solution?

Thanks,
Andreas

[micheler]

Re: Mouse not recognized by Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

I see it's a known bug, #87262.
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...20/+bug/87262>

What to do now? Install Edgy or Dapper again?

Thanks,
Andreas

[penguin.ch]

Re: Mouse not recognized by Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

What to do now?

Is it a "mouse-specific" or a "usb-specific" problem? - In other words:

- Does rewriting the "mouse-specific" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf change anything?
- Do other usb devices (external harddisks, printers and the like) function properly?

(Sorry for remaining vague. but as a dedicated VMware user, guessing is all I'm able to offer ...)

[micheler]

Re: Mouse not recognized by Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

I suspect it is mouse specific,
because MS Virtual PC does not seem to support USB devices,
or have I missed something?

But I am not totally sure.
Also I did not have the time to investigate it further,
so I simply switched to VirtualBox,
where 7.04 runs pretty well so far. :-)

The only drawback was,
I had to reformat one partition of my harddisk,
because on my FAT32 partitions
I could not get a virtual harddrive larger than 4GB,
but I needed that space. :-(

The VirtualBox ran up to the point of 4GB,
then it paused with an out of mem error.
After I had a NTFS partition ready I could move the virtual disk to it,
and continue using the 7.04 installation. :-)

But it still would have been nice,
if I would not had to reinstall on another virtualiser,
this took me one whole day more,
so the problem is not irrelevant, I think.

Best,
Andreas

[Loki-uk]

Re: Mouse not recognized by Microsoft Virtual PC 2007


This isn't a virtual PC issue the lateest kernel has a PS2 bug. A lot of regular installations have reported this problem.

Loki