No, the idea is that once you enter a working VM, mouse and keyboard are
"captured" by the virtual machine and the host machine cannot see them.
You press a key, usually Right Alt (but this is user configurable), to
tell the VM to "let go" and allow you to do other things on the host
machine (answe
And this bug:
2007-01-13 No mouse in Herd 2 Desktop CD on Virtual PC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/79117
Some report that this also happens in VMWare as well.
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Mouse, Keyboard disabled in Virtual PC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109027
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Public bug reported:
Running Ubuntu 7.04 either via LiveCD or by installing under Virtual PC 2004
and 2007 (by Microsoft) results in inability to move mouse, no keyboard.
Keyboard can be "reactivated" via Alt-F1, but no workaround for dead mouse.
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