Mouse cursor not available in VM window

[ivanachukapawn]

Running Windows 7 Professional - and CentOS7.0 guest OS (although this was described as Ubuntu). - When running this VM I can get the Linux host access to the keyboard by clicking on the Title Bar - and I can enter and run Linux commands successfully. But I want to have a cursor in the VM window. The documentation says that to get the cursor I should click in the Window - I do this, but no cursor has been available. The cursor is available on the host though. This is not working as the documentation describes (although there is a lot of documentation - obviously I missed something because this doesn't work. How can I get this to work?

[socratis]

1. CentOS is based on Fedora, not Ubuntu. See if changing it in the VM settins fixes it.
2. See if disabling the 3D acceleration (in the VM settings) fixes it.
3. Have you installed the Guest Additions?

[Martin]

CentOS is pretty identical to RHEL (Redhat Enterprise Linux), so the best setting would be RHEL 7
(...as soon as the next version of VIrtualbox supports it completely )

[ivanachukapawn]

Martin,

I have been trying to obtain a viable Linux VM using a CentOS 7 download ( CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-Everything ). I tried your advice regarding Linux type specification when creating the virtual machine (i.e. select a Redhat Linux type because CentOS is RedHat) - but there is no Redhat V7 in the drop down list. So I selected Redhat V6 64-bit - The cursor situation still the same - I can't seem to get a cursor in the VM window (using CTRL-G) and have to CTRL-Alt to get the Host cursor. Would you think it would be productive to find a CentOS V6 download and to try creating this Linux VM from scratch?

[loukingjr]

I installed and ran CentOS 7.0 as a guest using VirtualBox 4.3.14 without any problem. I did install the guest additions which I'm not sure you have based on your symptoms. Plus, there is no Redhat with a version number to choose from, or any other Linux choice that I can find. There is just 32bit or 64bit.

[hammer2j2]

Hey, man. I am having the same problem. MAC OS X 10.10.2 host, Virtual Box 4.3.24 build r98716. I installed Centos7.0 CentOS_BuildTag
20140704-1507

I can't see a mouse pointer. I think the mouse works, it's just I can't see it. Unusable situation.

Please help.

[loukingjr]

Hey, man. I am having the same problem. MAC OS X 10.10.2 host, Virtual Box 4.3.24 build r98716. I installed Centos7.0 CentOS_BuildTag
20140704-1507

I can't see a mouse pointer. I think the mouse works, it's just I can't see it. Unusable situation.

Please help.

you need to install the guest additions.