Mouse cursor sometimes invisible when running an XP guest in VMware Workstation/Player: Invisible Mouse Cursor on Text Editors « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/30
The RDP to VMware host running an XP guest: Invisible Mouse Cursor on Text Editors problem is not limited to RDP-ing into the VMware host, but also happens on some hosts themselves (including my ThinkPad W701 running Windows 7 x64).
This VMware Communities: Invisible Mouse Cursor on Text Editors … thread (that has a different host configuration: Vista) comes up with 2 different solutions that both work:
- Make your Windows XP mouse scheme the “Windows Black (system scheme)”
- Put the Windowx XP video hardware acceleration one position below maximum.
Since less hardware acceleration also means far less performance, I’ve opted for the first solution.
–jeroen
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