Hyper-V "Mouse input not captured"
I've installed hyper-v on windows 8, downloaded and added virtual machine from ms site "Windows 7 IE 8". But I can't use mouse, see message in bottom of window "Mouse input not captured". "Action->Insert Integration Service Setup Disk" and reboot doesn't help, "ctrl+alt+left arrow" doesn't help. What's the problem?
upd: I tried this but after 'starting windows' mouse goes away.
3 Answers
Steps to resolve this problem:
- go to virtual machine
- go to control panel-> programs and features
- remove "Virtual PC Integration Components"
- shut down and turn on virtual machine
You have to do all these steps using keyboard. Tab is your best friend here.
In case anyone comes across this:
On Windows Server 2008 32bit you need to install SP2 for Hyper-V connectivity (You won't have mouse integration or networking upon base install, and you can't install the Hyper-V integration CD without SP2) Installing SP2 via mounting a CD ISO is easiest (the ISO is named mu_windows_vista_sp2_x86_x64_ia64_dvd_x15-39754.iso on MSDN) Note: Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit does not have this problem, but I couldn't find R2 32bit on MSDN.
If you don't have MSDN I imagine you could get an offline install for SP2 and "burn" it to a virtual drive to create an ISO.
PS - It was fun trying to do things in the virtual console without keyboard shortcuts like Alt+Tab
Uninstalling "Virtual PC Integration Components" in the virtual machine solved it for me as well. One addition though: when uninstalling it asked for the installation cd/files. To tackle this do the following:
-Locate the iso file you originally used to install the integration features;
File name: IntegrationComponents.iso
Probable location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Virtual PC\Integration Components\
-In Hyper-V Manager select the settings for the virtual machine. Insert IntegrationComponents.iso into the virtual cd/dvd station via Hardware ; IDE controller 1
-(Re)uninstall "Virtual PC Integration Components"
