Mouse Problems - Can't move pointer freely

[viking]

I am running VirtualBox 3.2.8 on a WIN 7, 64 bit host and WIN7, 64 bit guest. I have not installed any Guest Additions.

My USB mouse works fine in the host, but is very difficult and tiresome to try to use it inside the Guest Window. It is like the mouse pointer hits an "invisible wall". I need to move the mouse around rapidly to "break the wall". A few seconds later there is another wall that again prevents the pointer from moving freely.

I saw similar posts with previous versions of VB, but I thought the issues were supposedly fixed now?

Any suggestions? It makes it very difficult to use VirtualBox when the mouse pointer can not be moved freely.

MOD Edit: No cross posting. Other post deleted

[Perryg]

Yes! Install the guest additions (in the guest)

[viking]

Yes! Install the guest additions (in the guest)

Is the guest addition required to operate the mouse smoothly inside the guest?
Will VB have these problems without it?

[Perryg]

My experience is no it does not. You can try to tweak some settings like absolute pointing but to properly smooth it out you need the guest additions. Any reason why you don't want them?

[viking]

My experience is no it does not. You can try to tweak some settings like absolute pointing but to properly smooth it out you need the guest additions. Any reason why you don't want them?

No reason, except lazy (have to install each time a new VM is created)... Didn't realize that I needed it until I now tried it. Thanks!