This is definitely do-able, but (and this is not a VBox problem) the installer for CentOS/etc really does not make it that intuitive to complete with keyboard input only. It's near impossible to see what's selected or in focus, at least for me it is. So yes it's possible, but at least to me it's incredibly annoying. But that's an aside as mentioned.AcquaCow wrote:I just tab through the installer.
[Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
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Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
I just came from VirtualBox 5.2 to 6.0 and immediately ran into this bug. Everything was working perfectly prior to the upgrade, and suddenly when VirtualBox changes (all other variables remain the same) - suddenly the mouse has disappeared completely. Switching to VboxSVGA appears to fix this as others have mentioned, and gives the expected result.
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Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
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So, if you try with an earlier CentOS version, like 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, you still have that issue? Please confirm or refute that assertion...
So, if you try with an earlier CentOS version, like 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, you still have that issue? Please confirm or refute that assertion...
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Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
I just tried with 7.5 which can be downloaded from the Kernel archive website (I can't post URLs unfortunately as I'm a new user - but it's easy to find and CentOS website does link to it, its a bit hidden though) and had the same exact issue.
So to confirm:
Edit: I did a few more tests for science, and the results are not good. Here's what I've got:
My test is simply with the default Red Hat (64-bit) OS presets when creating a VM in VirtualBox, so all these tests I'm doing are with the Graphics Controller set to VMSVGA. When I hit the installation screen, I would either immediately see the black mouse cursor and be able to use it as expected, or not see anything at all and thus have the issues as described.
So to confirm:
- VBox 5.2.x + CentOS 7.5 = Works
- VBox 5.2.x + CentOS 7.6 = Works
- VBox 6.0.4 r128413 + CentOS 7.5 = Bug
- VBox 6.0.4 r128413 + CentOS 7.6 = Bug
Edit: I did a few more tests for science, and the results are not good. Here's what I've got:
- VBox 6.0.4 r128413 + CentOS 7.5 = Bug (Graphics Controller: VMSVGA) (filename: CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso)
- VBox 6.0.4 r128413 + CentOS 7.4 = Bug (Graphics Controller: VMSVGA) (filename: CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso)
- VBox 6.0.4 r128413 + CentOS 7.3 = Bug (Graphics Controller: VMSVGA) (filename: CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1611.iso)
- VBox 6.0.4 r128413 + CentOS 7.2 = Bug (Graphics Controller: VMSVGA) (filename: CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso)
- VBox 6.0.4 r128413 + CentOS 7.5 = Working (Graphics Controller: VboxSVGA) (filename: CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso)
- VBox 6.0.4 r128413 + CentOS 7.4 = Working (Graphics Controller: VboxSVGA) (filename: CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso)
- VBox 6.0.4 r128413 + CentOS 7.3 = Working (Graphics Controller: VboxSVGA) (filename: CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1611.iso)
- VBox 6.0.4 r128413 + CentOS 7.2 = Working (Graphics Controller: VboxSVGA) (filename: CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso)
My test is simply with the default Red Hat (64-bit) OS presets when creating a VM in VirtualBox, so all these tests I'm doing are with the Graphics Controller set to VMSVGA. When I hit the installation screen, I would either immediately see the black mouse cursor and be able to use it as expected, or not see anything at all and thus have the issues as described.
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Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
Then you shouldn't be here, in this thread. This thread and its accompanying ticket have a very, very specific reason for existing; a well known issue in the RHEL/CentOS 7.6. kernel.boktai1000 wrote:I just tried with 7.5 ... and had the same exact issue.
What you might be experiencing is completely different. And since this issue has been covered to death, and the only thing that's going to do is to attract more "me too", or false positives, I'm going to lock this. Please feel free to open a new thread where we can discuss the specifics of your issue.
@toracat
Since you're the only user that has the "clearance" to follow this in the RHEL bugtracker, if you need to post an update to this issue, please feel more than free to send me a PM, and I'll post the updated status. Thanks for understanding...
PS. I'm not sure how many times I have to repeat that if you want to switch from a bug that was found in the VMSVGA (Linux guests default), you do *NOT* go for the VBoxSVGA (Windows guests defaults), you go for the VBoxVGA one, the old trusted one. Until the bug is addressed.
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Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
Apparantly Socratis has not responded to pms for the last couple of days, so following a pm from "Toracat" I've unlocked the topic so he can post.
Please stick to the topic, i.e. if you aren't using RHEL 7.6 then don't post.
Please stick to the topic, i.e. if you aren't using RHEL 7.6 then don't post.
Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
Hello everyone,
I would like to post the news I just read about in the Red Hat Customer Portal Community. Red Hat had announced a kernel update that fixes the issue discussed here: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0512.
Thanks @Toracat for taking such effort in solving this issue.
Regards,
JoergK
I would like to post the news I just read about in the Red Hat Customer Portal Community. Red Hat had announced a kernel update that fixes the issue discussed here: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0512.
Thanks @Toracat for taking such effort in solving this issue.
Regards,
JoergK
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Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
Thanks, @JoergK , for breaking the news! :
I meant to post here a couple days ago but was not able to. So, the forum users here were the last to get to know the good news. But, yes, the long wait is over!
CentOS users have to wait a bit longer. Their kernel is in the build queue and will be published fairly soon.
I meant to post here a couple days ago but was not able to. So, the forum users here were the last to get to know the good news. But, yes, the long wait is over!
CentOS users have to wait a bit longer. Their kernel is in the build queue and will be published fairly soon.
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Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
To CentOS users: the updated kernel is not out yet. I don't know what's causing the delay. I will update this thread as soon as I hear something ...
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Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
Finally!! The CentOS kernel update (kernel-3.10.0-957.10.1.el7) has just been released. It is sync'ing to mirrors.
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Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
Beautiful - I can confirm it installs and VBoxAdditions builds cleanly. All good.
Thanks to everyone who got this patch through!
Thanks to everyone who got this patch through!
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Re: [Invalid] Mouse only usable within single application after mouse click on RHEL 7.6 (#18124)
Glad that this loooong thread has finally come to an end.
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