The mouse does not work on a SLES vm on Hyper-V
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 3
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Situation
Resolution
Therefore, in order to have mouse support, access the VM directly in one of the following methods:
- Directly from the Hyper-V server's console
- Use "ssh -X <user@vm ip or host name" to access the SLE VM directly
- Use VNC to access the SLE VM directly.
Additional Information
For more information you can reference the following Microsoft Technet article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742454.aspx
For Suse Linux Enterprise (SLE) 10 SP3 there is a possible solution but it is not supported by SUSE:
Download and install the InputVSC Driver from Citrix Project Satori @ http://www.xen.org/download/satori.html.
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- Document ID:7007947
- Creation Date: 17-Feb-2011
- Modified Date:28-Sep-2022
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