Bug 18886 - Mouse pointer misaligned under virtualbox (VBox needs to default to 'USB tablet' for Linux hosts)
Summary: Mouse pointer misaligned under virtualbox (VBox needs to default to 'USB tabl...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Low normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Backlund
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Reported: 2016-07-07 15:21 CEST by Alejandro Vargas
Modified: 2016-07-20 14:24 CEST (History)
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Description Alejandro Vargas 2016-07-07 15:21:28 CEST 
When installing Mageia 6 SPA1 (64 bits) under Virtual Box, the virtual mouse pointer appears misaligned with the real one. Then, it is impossible to access the right part of the screen. In most processes you can select the button with tab and enter but in the last windows I coudn't 

In previous releases (even in dev1) it worked ok.

To reproduce the problem just install
Alejandro Vargas 2016-07-07 15:24:42 CEST

Priority: Normal => Low

Comment 1 David Walser 2016-07-07 16:16:09 CEST 
Actually, I have always experienced this issue in our installer going back to Mageia 1.  If you click the mouse icon in the bottom-right corner of the VirtualBox VM window to disable the mouse integration, it successfully works around this issue.

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2016-07-07 18:20:24 CEST 
Sadly, virtualbox doesn't offer a input driver.
In order to get mouse integration, we've to use x11-driver-video-vboxvideo which looks bad b/c it enables the user to resize the installer window to unsupported resolutions.
Also it would make it impossible to test the regular fb driver (that everybody will use on real machines) in VBox anymore...

You can use virt-manager, you'll get mouse integration (automatically if host is cauldron/mga6).
On Mga5, you'll have to add HW (USB tablet) for that to works.

Else, you can open a bug at virtualbox.org about adding an official HID driver in the kernel like VMware did.

Or we can patch VirtualBox so that it automatically choose USB tablet as input driver for Linux hosts, which is the sensible thing to do in order to get working mouse integration....

CC: (none) => tmb
Assignee: thierry.vignaud => bugsquad
Source RPM: (none) => virtualbox

Thierry Vignaud 2016-07-07 18:20:42 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Summary: Mouse pointer misaligned under virtualbox => Mouse pointer misaligned under virtualbox (VBox needs to default to 'USB tablet' for Linux hosts)

Thierry Vignaud 2016-07-07 22:58:01 CEST

Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2016-07-09 12:44:09 CEST 
(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #2)

> 
> Or we can patch VirtualBox so that it automatically choose USB tablet as
> input driver for Linux hosts, which is the sensible thing to do in order to
> get working mouse integration....

Assigning to virtualbox maintainer, then

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 4 Thomas Backlund 2016-07-20 14:24:17 CEST 
Virtualbox defaults do USB tablet emulation in settings...

If we fail to detect that we need to figure out why
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