The virtual machine os does not support mouse pointer integration

Question

I was trying to set up a VM via Oracle Virtual Box in my MacBook.

Host OS: Mac

Application: Oracle Virtual

VM OS: CentOS 7

While I'm trying to start the OS installation I found that mouse capturing of the VM is not working correctly.

Observation: Once the mouse pointer captured in the VM, It's not visible as expected

And also I got a pop-up message related to this;

Pop-up message: The virtual machine reports that the guest os does not support mouse pointer integration in the current video mode

Hispania

Answer 1

1. Shut-Down the VM

2. Select a particular VM and go to settings

3. Go to System section

4. In the Motherboard tab, change the Pointing Device as below; From: PS/2 mouse To: USB Tablet OR USB Multi-touch Tablet

5. Save settings and Start the VM

Hispania

Also some times (in mac) you have to add the device in 'Machines > Settings > Ports > USB > USB DEVICE FILTERS (click + on RHS to see the list ) and select the device to be added. On submit the vm might logout. – Confound

Thanks, works like a charm. In my case the issue started occurring when I switched from the USB2 to the USB3 controller in the settings of the VM (Ubuntu 23.10 host, Windows 7 guest). – Valles

Perfect. This issue kept coming up during video calls on a Windows host. Slack and Teams would interact with the mouse just enough to mess it up. Switching to USB Multi-Touch Tablet did the trick! – Underachieve

Answer 2

I had this message when I tried copying to/from Terminal to outside text and vice versa.

I could enable it from the VBox interface once the Guest OS has started!

Devices --> Shared Clipboard --> to Bidirectional

The menus are File | Machine | View | Input | Devices | Help

Fpc