VMWare mouse problems – mouse stuck in bottom right corner
If you convert a virtual machine which has Microsoft's "Virtual Machine Additions" installed to a VMWare-compatible virtual machine using VMWare converter or a similar program and then proceed to install VMWare tools to optimize the virtual machine for its new environment, you will quickly find your mouse isn't all that willing to move anymore. Either it wont show up at all, or it will be stuck in the bottom right corner of the screen, which is of course very inconvenient.
There are three, increasingly difficult but decreasingly time consuming, ways to solve this problem:
1. Do it all over again, but make sure to uninstall the Virtual Machine Additions before you convert the machine.
2. Install VMWare tools without the mouse driver (choose custom installation)
3. Open regedit, and use your mad keyboarding skillz to navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E96F-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
..then remove the value "msvmmouf" and any adjacent spaces from the Regvalue UpperFilters, leaving whatever else is there, then reboot.
Happy mouse!
January 27th, 2009 - 23:54
Thanks, this solved my problem
February 17th, 2009 - 14:28
Thanks mate, this was exactly my problem and your solution worked for me!
April 7th, 2009 - 16:43
This solved my problem as well.
June 18th, 2010 - 04:19
This was awesome! thanks!
November 17th, 2010 - 09:27
Worked great, only caveat is that if you have UAC turned on, #3 won’t work since you can’t answer the prompt with the keyboard
December 21st, 2011 - 12:10
sure you can
May 18th, 2011 - 08:38
Your solution is great!
My problem was similar, but not exactly the same. VMWare Player 3.1.4 on a host of Ubuntu 10.10, 64-bit, and a client of 32-bit WinXP.
For me, the mouse moved wherever on the screen, but Windows seemed to think it was mostly in the lower left corner, so when I clicked, the start menu would toggle.
Great, and thank you very much.
July 19th, 2011 - 15:49
Whoa, whoa, get out the way with that good infromtaion.
May 25th, 2011 - 19:28
AWESOME!!!
This was driving me insane on one VM I have that’s gone from VPC, to Virtual Server to Hyper-V to VMWare and now on KVM. Phew with all that migration, some things are bound to get stuck…
Again thanks!
May 26th, 2011 - 10:48
Perfect! I downloaded Microsoft’s IE6 virtual machine yesterday. Needless to say, it was in VPC format, but I’m running it on VmWare. After numerous attempts to fix the mouse problem I ended up with a non-working keyboard and the mouse still was stuck in the corner. Well, I converted it again, but this time used your regedit tip, and it works just perfectly now. Thanks a lot!
June 29th, 2011 - 20:36
Thanks, buddy!!
I changed my register, restart the VM and the problem was solved immediately.
September 15th, 2011 - 00:35
Thank you!! That was driving me crazy! Both the fact that it was happening at all and the fact that I couldn’t fix it! (I did option 3 also.)
October 25th, 2011 - 12:22
Kudos to this advice, it helped me.