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#Fedora 22, VMware Workstation 11, & Erratic Mouse

At initial release, using a mouse with Fedora 22 as a guest for VMware Workstation is absolutely frustrating. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204393 for details. Essentially, it has to do with the mouse passing over or at the edge of the guest desktop resulting in a mouse cursor that jumps around the guest's desktop. It unusable!

A work around is to change VMware Workstation preferences to require clicking on the guest to grab the mouse versus pass over the guest.

  1. Open explorer and enter "%appdata%" without the double quotes.
  2. Open "vmware" directory.
  3. Edit preferences.ini and add the following to the bottom of the file:
pref.motionUngrab = "FALSE"
pref.grabOnMouseClick = "TRUE"
pref.motionGrab = "FALSE"

I have tested and verified it does work. Use ctrl+alt to release the mouse from the guest.