Hi guys!
I am having some annoying frustrations and am looking for help! There is a $500 bounty to the person who can find an acceptable solution for this first! When I run the RealVNC 4.4 (or newer) server/viewer on virtual desktops that use virtualization technology such as VMWare, Xenserver, etc. the mouse pointer shown on the screen is a normal white pointer. But when I run RealVNC 4.4 server/viewer on a Virtuozzo Containers desktop (Win Server 2003), the mouse pointer on the screen is the wretched "dotcursor" (roughly 2x2 pixels black dot with a white outline). When I run it on the hardware node that is managing the virtuozzo containers (also Win Server 2003) it works perfectly fine - white arrow. It *only* shows up as a dotcursor inside the virtuozzo container. RealVNC has confirmed that this happens because the VNC Server cannot detect any mouse connected, and since there is no mouse, there is no arrow to draw. And I did notice that our VMWare accounts have a "virtual mouse" installed by the VMWare Tools software. However, our hardware node (that runs the containers) shows the mouse pointer just fine, even without a physical (or virtual) mouse installed. I've already tried installing some "virtual mouse" programs from download.com (none worked) and I tried forcing some mouse drivers into it to make it think it had a mouse but I couldn't get the drivers installed (x64 Windows Server 2003 maybe didn't like 32-bit drivers? I've never tried to install mouse drivers before anyway). Want to see it live? IP: 69.73.169.33 Web link: http://69.73.169.33:5800 Password: 1234 My target demographic for these VPS sales are in the 30-60 year old range, investors who are mostly computer illiterate. They just need a Windows VPS to run software from, and RealVNC has been working GREAT on our VMWare infrastructure. However, we're moving to Virtuozzo for a variety of reasons, and need RealVNC to continue working there too! I surveyed our current membership and the strong conclusion was that the "dotcursor" would be very annoying and hard to use. RealVNC will have this "fixed" in the VNC Server sometime next year, but I need this fixed *this week*.... Any takers? An acceptable solution will meet the following conditions: Will be transparent to the end-user Will show the normal white arrow pointer when using the RealVNC Viewer OR java-based web access Will show the normal "double-arrow" when hovering over the edges of windows to resize them Will not suck up a bunch of system resources Is done entirely on the server and not using a command line or special utility on the end-users computer The $500 will be paid by check or PayPal, your choice. Thank you! -- Scott Wang Thorp Web My cell: 715-512-0055 Email: sc...@thorpweb.com _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
