VMWARE FUSION 10 BACK BUTTON MOUSE HOW TO
VMWARE FUSION 10 BACK BUTTON MOUSE SOFTWARE
VMWARE FUSION 10 BACK BUTTON MOUSE WINDOWS

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VMWARE FUSION 10 BACK BUTTON MOUSE HOW TO

While I wasn’t able to figure out how to install SetPoint on a guest OS, the workaround of installing SetPoint on the host OS seems to accomplish my goal. I suspect, though, that this would be were to begin, were I to need to get SetPoint running in the guest OS.

VMWARE FUSION 10 BACK BUTTON MOUSE SOFTWARE

I didn’t get to the second step, as I was too lazy to track down a PS/2 mouse to keep attached to the host, and I still wanted to find a software solution. The second step would have been to go into Device Manager, click Actions, and then choose “Scan for hardware changes”. Without connecting a second mouse, I tried passing the Logitech mouse as a USB device to the VM, just as I would an external hard drive, but VMware prevented this, with a warning message:Ĭannot connect “Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse” to this virtual machine. This sounded like a great idea, and I was willing to set up a second, PS/2 mouse to control just the host, if necessary. If you actually pass through your keyboard and your mouse, you’ll be stuck in the guest and you’ll have to shut it down (or worse, reboot your physical machine). You can still ungrab with the keyboard (ctrl-cmd I believe is the shortcut?). The dangerous part here is that once you pass through the mouse, it is actually disconnected from the host, so you won’t be able to ungrab from the guest just by mousing out of the Fusion window. Then, you’ll notice that your main mouse and keyboard (if they are USB) are available to pass through into the guest via the USB devices menu. If you’re feeling really adventurous and/or desperate, you can take out the line and add this option instead: vmx file:Īn explanation of what this does, by a VMware associate, can be found in the thread at The solution given (which did not work for me) is to:įirst add the following line to the virtual machine’s. vmx file:įrom what I can tell, this setting allows me to use the Forward and Back buttons on the mouse, but does not make the mouse detectable by SetPoint.

There are a few settings that can be tweaked that may get you closer to a working installation.Īdd the following line to the virtual machine’s. Paths to follow if you want to pursue installing SetPoint inside a VMware virtual machine This is the solution that I’m implementing now, and it is what I would recommend, provided you have rights to install software on the host. Installing it on the host seems to make all of the functionality available in the guest.

VMWARE FUSION 10 BACK BUTTON MOUSE WINDOWS

Thankfully, it seems that, at least in the case of a Windows host and a Windows guest, installing SetPoint inside the virtual machine is not necessary. The question of how to obtain SetPoint functionality in virtual machines is one that has been asked many, many times before, without a satisfactory answer. SetPoint, then, doesn’t detect any Logitech hardware that it can configure. VMware seems to treat USB mice connected to the host as PS/2 devices in the guest.

It is missing the My Mouse tab (and if a keyboard were installed, I presume it would be missing the Keyboard tab, too).Īfter some Googling around, it appears to be a due to the way VMware approximates the physical mouse. SetPoint Settings in an XP virtual machineĪs shown in the screenshot, the SetPoint Settings utility displays only the Tools tab.

Vmware fusion 10 back button mouse