Mouse integration keeps spontaneously turning off, and mouse pointer freezes

[Codeswitcher]

Host: a brand new MacBook Pro running Catalina (10.15.1). Guest: Snow Leopard (10.6.8 ) 64 bit.

When mouse integration is working, it works great. It's just that keeps spontanouelsy turning off or crapping out or something. Icon in the toolbar greys out, and when I click on it it shows "Mouse Integration" with a check mark, but also greyed out.

When this happens - at least usually, if not always - then the mouse pointer in the guest window also freezes, and I don't know how to get control back. I've tried various things, like toggling whether my external pointer device (I have an external trackball plugged in, in addition to the on-board trackpad) is mapped to the guest; a couple of times, that seems to have worked - or it was a coincidence and just started working regardless of doing that.

Or what just happened to me: I toggled dedicating the trackball to the guest back on, and I had control of the mouse pointer in the guest window for about five seconds - I moved a window a bit, I attempted to click on my downloads folder – and then it seized right back up.

The host button continues to work, I don't have trouble getting my mouse pointer back out of the guest window. I just can't do anything inside it.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

[socratis]

I want to see the recipe of the VM, the ".vbox" file. Right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager, select "Show in Finder". ZIP the selected ".vbox" file and attach it to your response.

BTW, I've never, *ever* messed up with Mouse Integration. Guess what... I've never had a problem.

[michaldo]

Hi

I have similar problem: after some time mouse pointer on guest system does not work.

The workaround is known, but hard to find: virtualbox ticket 14743

So: If mouse is lost, killing process helps:

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dev  > ps -ef | grep drag
dev       1332     1  0 Jan10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --draganddrop
dev       1333  1332  0 Jan10 ?        00:03:48 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --draganddrop
dev       5500 19335  0 11:30 pts/3    00:00:00 grep drag
dev > kill 1333