Comments on: Ubuntu 9.04 (beta/RC/final) In VMware Fusion

By: openthreads

openthreads — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:15:39 +0000

My mouse ungrab was also not working but I already had xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse installed and the xorg.conf edits mentioned in the other comment’s link didn’t fix it either.

What did work for me was to:

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse

and then

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse

I then logged out, restarted the Xserver and now the mouse is getting released automatically just fine when pointer is moved outside the VMware fusion client’s window.

By: vukodlak75

vukodlak75 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:37:05 +0000

A big thanks for the update on getting the mouse to work properly

By: Paul Kehrer

Paul Kehrer — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:00:56 +0000

Thanks for the info toms. My solution obviously worked for me at the time, but hopefully your comments will help others!

By: t0ms

t0ms — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:27:34 +0000

Also, once the vmhgfs module is compiled, the guest OS cannot actually write to the mounted folder unless you make the following change:

– Edit: sudo vi /etc/fstab;
– Change:
.host:/ /mnt/hgf
to
.host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5,uid=1000,gid=1000 0,
where uid=1000 and gid=1000 are the actual user and group IDs

By: t0ms

t0ms — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:50:33 +0000

This did not work for me with Ubuntu 9.04 Beta running of VMware Fusion. I had to replace the vmhgfs directory from the Open VM tools Project url: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/
The module then compiles fine.