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Wow, wow, wow, wow to the 1000th power.
Truly, I feel this SOLUTION should be scrolling or in big bold red on the front forums page so that users can pick it up, and other OS users can see how it worked with windows GUEST to maybe lead them in the right direction for their OSes that may have the same problem. This solution is so big, it will be like a major release or update for many people. People have been wanting this option to for years. Funny enough, the possibility has always been here.

** When a mod moves this somewhere, please change the title to *TUTORIAL automatically disable mouse integration Windows GUEST.* Thanks.

HERE IS THE SOLUTION!!!!!

1st the WHY people might want to do this, and why this is important (many looking at this thread already know why and are rejoicing).

1) This will allow the GUEST windows OS with Guest Additions Installed! with a secondary mouse and secondary keyboard immediately begin using the secondary OS mouse WITHOUT having to 1st go to machine>disable mouse integration with the PRIMARY OS mouse, OR use the PRIMARY OS keyboard to press HOTKEY+I. If you are using 2 keyboards and 2 mice, you NEVER have to touch the PRIMARY OS mouse or keyboard again.

TESTED on a windows host with windows guest. You make these modifictions INSIDE THE GUEST OS.

Instructions (Thanks to a 2007, yes a 2007 post from arenddittmer who had problems with an invisible mouse ).
Prior to trying this, I should state that I did backup these specific registry keys on the guest OS in case it didnt work. But it did...you might want to back up (EXPORT) the keys in case this does not work for you. I don't see why it wouldn't.

Solved the (INVISIBLE MOUSE CURSOR) problem by disabling the Virtual Box mouse driver that is installed with the Virtual Box Additions.

1. Removed VBoxMouse from the registry entry for the mouse class, so that the mouse class defined in

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96F-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

only contains 'mouclass' as UpperFilters. (delete the vbox mouse entry)

2. Disabled VBoxMouse.sys by setting

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VBoxMouse\Start to 4 (disabled).

Don't have the feature of one mouse pointer for physical and virtual desktop. No big deal though ... full screen support matters more ( I do NOT know what he was talking about here, everything works exactly how I wanted it to, so happy.)

I appreciate the enthusiam about helping, but... Too many words, too few of them useful. I would not consider the above good enough to be a tutorial. In fact it doesn't belong here either: it should have been posted in "Suggestions".

Perhaps an easier solution than having to edit the registry could be implemented in the future? I posted about issues with the mouse in an earlier thread about Minecraft on a guest os. Will try to remember this thread to see if it will solve my those issues, thanks.

With mpack on this. There is a clear post about what a proper post needs to have for it to have a chance of getting added to the FAQ/Howto section.

OGDeadHead wrote:I posted about issues with the mouse in an earlier thread about Minecraft on a guest os. Will try to remember this thread to see if it will solve my those issues, thanks.

Just a quick follow-up to mention that this solution does not seem to apply to the pointer issues described over at: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11468