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Hi,

First I'd like to say the 3d support so far seems very good, but I've noticed some problems in 3d fullscreen games ( I haven't tried any windowed 3d games, but windowed 3d apps - e.g. google earth, seem fine if not as speedy as their fullscreen counterparts).

One free OSS example is OpenArena. Sometimes my cursor will just be crazy: sliding where it isn't supposed to, flickering, and becoming invisible (all 3d games I've tried so far have this problem). I noticed that on changing the resolution in the game (redgardless of what I change the resolution to) this problem will be fixed. However, I couldn't change it to my native desktop resolution so there was still a problem with mouse panning - when my mouse would go to the edge of the virtual screen it would become detached from the VM, rather than just staying at the edge of the vm screen.

Is there a way to keep the mouse locked in the virtual screen? I think vmware had a feature like this, but it has been a while since I'ved used it.

Also, does anyone have any ideas on what may be causing the first problem?

Are the GA installed?

Yes, 3.0.2 ga are installed

Have you disabled mouse integration ?
This often solves issues when running 3D applications with a Windows VM.

On a Linux host disabling 3D desktop effects also sometimes helps

OK, I didn't realize that was an option - though I thought it should be - I finally spotted the mouse icon in the lower right and corner of the vbox screen (didn't realize it was a mouse). This fixes the problem =)