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:
- Do it all over again, but make sure to uninstall the Virtual Machine Additions before you convert the machine.
- Install VMWare tools without the mouse driver (choose custom installation)
- 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!
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Thanks, this solved my problem
Thanks mate, this was exactly my problem and your solution worked for me!
This solved my problem as well.
This was awesome! thanks!
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 🙁
sure you can
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.
Whoa, whoa, get out the way with that good infromtaion.
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!
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!
Thanks, buddy!!
I changed my register, restart the VM and the problem was solved immediately.
😀
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.)
Kudos to this advice, it helped me.
Thanks
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I have run into this before and had to reinstall.
This is great thanks.
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Thanks, the third one worked great. Saved me a lot of time!
Brilliant!
Can someone kindly help me here? What do you mean in the last part? “…and any adjacent spaces from the Regvalue Upper Filters, leaving whatever else is there…”. Mine doesn’t have an upper filters, can someone help? 🙁
If you don’t have the UpperFilters registry value, I suggest you use method 1 or 2 instead.
Thanks man, this still works great!
Btw it seems a good idea to uninstall “Microsoft Virtual Machine Additions” afterwards, solved a hung shutdown in my case.
Just to let you know it worked for me too.
It also works in wmware player
Solution 3 worked for me. Thanks for the tip.
awesome tip, cheers
No 3 worked for me. Thanks!
Many thanks for your solution!
Thank you so much, it worked brilliantly
I can confirm this worked as well.
My mouse was stuck in the upper left corner, and the option 3 fixed it for me. Thanks a lot!
it is really the ANSWER!!!!!!! It worked!!!!
Thanks. This worked.
Thank you so much…
It Work.
Awesome Answer…. 🙂
dUDE! yOUR THE bESt!
I can confirm the 3rd method worked on
windows “Xp mode” converted vhd.
THANK YOU!!! YOU SOLVED A PROBLEM THAT OTHERWISE WOULD RENDER THE MACHINE USELESS.
Same as the last guy, the 3rd method worked on Windows XP converted from the vhd from Microsoft. (I have not tried the first 2 methods.)
Thanks 🙂
Third method works perfectly fine. Using VHD taken from Virtual XP.
Thank you!
This needs to be the top answer!! Thank you so much for this. The reg fix did it for me. An XP client on Windows 10 host. Client image was from an MS IE tester VM.
Thank you!
Thank you, you have saved tommorow classess
Wow, this worked PERFECT.
Thank you so much!
Amazing, brilliant … genius 🙂
Quite Obvious, the ‘ms’ prefix in the register value is the seed of evil.
Thanks alot buddy.it solved my issue.