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I have installed a copy of Windows 7 as a guest in a Gnome Boxes VM. During install, it behaved normally, as do various Linux distros I have also set up as guests. Based on rules I can't fathom, all of these do one of two things with respect to the mouse - they will either:
- Grab the mouse when I click in the guest OS, so that it can't escape the VM window, and the text at the top changes from "Press and release (left) Ctrl+Alt to ungrab keyboard" to "... to ungrab" ; or
- Allow the mouse to leave, but have the guest OS cursor follow mouse movements while in the VM window
The Windows 7 guest does neither. I move the mouse inside the VM window, the host cursor vanishes, but the Windows cursor stays still and I can navigate by keyboard only. Interestingly, the same VM loaded through virt-manager (by pointing it at the appropriate drive image in ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes
) behaves the same way, but a newly-created one in virt-manager using the same Windows install media appears to work properly. Is there a way to convince Gnome Boxes to do.. well, something sensible?