I need my mouse back, virtualbox killed it!

[Aimi]

Ugh. Sorry to post so irate but I have had it, I am at wits end.

I installed Virtualbox, loaded a Knoppix ISO, had a look, enabled my logitech m325 mouse via the USB menu, and that was the last I saw of it.

It now works in nothing. I deleted the drivers, updated them from Logitech, deleted all USB hub drivers, wiped all traces of virtualbox off the system, have rebooted numerous times and it STILL wont work. I have tried all of the USB ports, nothing is brining it back.

Any ideas?

I did search for this, I tried reinstalling virtualbox, guest additions, enabling and disabling usb, changing the hotkey.. nothing works. I am down to completely reinstalling the OS (Win 7) or throwing the mouse in the bin.

-_- Any help would be appreciated. Never again am I using virtualbox.. not after this.

[michaln]

I installed Virtualbox, loaded a Knoppix ISO, had a look, enabled my logitech m325 mouse via the USB menu, and that was the last I saw of it.

You assigned the mouse for exclusive use by the VM and you're surprised that the host can no longer use it? Why?

[Perryg]

The keyboard and mouse are a shared resource. You can't assign a filter for them and expect them to work properly.
USB devices are a one-to-one device and by creating the filter you have yanked it away from the host.

To fix you need to shut the guest down and reboot the host in some cases. Then edit the guest settings and remove the filter before you start the guest.

[Aimi]

I did go in and shut down the guest, then rebooted the entire system.

I have sorted through every running service and what is starting on boot as well.

Ill go and try again..

EDIT: Well it somehow has resulted in every service being disabled on boot so I have one hell of a screwup to fix. Not happy.

[michaln]

The keyboard and mouse are a shared resource. You can't assign a filter for them and expect them to work properly.

That depends on the definition of "properly". Sometimes users have additional/special input devices that they want to use (only) in a VM. Often they want to effectively share them between the host and guest and then capturing them (manually or via a filter) will not produce the desired results. There's no one-size-fits-all solution, unfortunately.

In the end, it's a lot like deleting files. Usually users want to keep their data... but sometimes they don't. The machine can't tell, it just does what it's told.

[mpack]

EDIT: Well it somehow has resulted in every service being disabled on boot so I have one hell of a screwup to fix. Not happy.

It's quite certain that has nothing to do with VirtualBox. VirtualBox can only affect things when it's running.

[Aimi]

Yeah well it is the ONLY thing I installed on it. My firewall gave me some 30 warnings when I was re-enabling everything.

I reinstalled the crap, ran a vm, a few times, acpi shutdown, runlevel shutdown.. nothing. Now I am up for a complete reinstall.

Great.

I just did a system restore to some time ago, no mouse.