Today I took an older VPC base image for Sever 2003 with SQL 2005 I had created and converted it to a VMWare Server 1.x image using the VMWare Converter. I had done this countless times with various XP and Vista VPC's without encountering any problems. Upon booting the new VM and installing the VM Tools, my mouse was stuck in the lower left hand corner. This was not a good sign! I spent a while looking for answers on VMWare's sight with not much luck. I did find some excellent advice on ZarkBlog... Various solutions included:
- Removing the Virtual PC Additions before conversion
- Installing VMWare Tools without the VMWare Mouse Driver in a custom install
- Removing the value msvmmouf value from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E96F-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\UpperFilters and rebooting
The last option was clearly the easiest to implement and worked flawlessly!
Posted
Oct 21 2008, 09:00 PM
by
Jerald Carter