Comments on: How To Enable Mouse Wheel Scrolling in Ubuntu 8.04 on VMware

By: yAnTar

yAnTar — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:30:50 +0000

Thank for this solution.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:49:22 +0000

Worked well.. I’m using VMWare Workstation 6.0.3 with Vista .. Ubuntu 8.04 .. Mouse scroll didn’t work, after the ctrl+alt+backspace, X restarted and all was well.

Thanks alot.

By: d0234b

d0234b — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:28:14 +0000

It worked ok on VMWare Workstation 6.0.3 with Windows XP SP2 Pro as a host and Fedora 7 as a guest. Thanks

By: Bill F

Bill F — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:55:00 +0000

Thanks for this - it worked very reliably on VMWare Player 2.0.4 and Ubuntu 8.04 running under Vista.

Out of interest, I also tried the suggestion some others have made, of just changing Driver “vmmouse” to “mouse”. This worked, but after awhile, whenever I moved the mouse close to the top of the screen, VMWare displayed two mouse pointers while I remained near the top of the screen. Sometimes I could not even move the mouse above the Firefox toolbar. Holding down the Ctrl and Alt key to move back to Vista, then immediately clicking on VMWare fixed it, but it always returned. Bizarre!

Making the configuration changes suggested above avoids this behaviour, but I thought I’d mention it in case anyone else just changes ‘vmmouse’ to ‘mouse’.

Once again, thanks for this.

By: Rod

Rod — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:12:03 +0000

Excellent. This did the trick for me!

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:27:51 +0000

Thanks much, quite easy for us new to Ubuntu users…

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:31:47 +0000

Thank you . Good work man .

By: Doni

Doni — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:12:32 +0000

Thaks!
That worked for me on Ubuntu 8.04 running in vmware on PC.

By: Shadal

Shadal — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:36:36 +0000

Thank you, this worked great!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:20:55 +0000

Odd for me, it worked for a while, but after reapplying vmware tools upgrade, the mouse was disfunctional until I changed the driver option from vmmouse to mouse. Vista Business, VMware workstation 6.0.3 build-80004, ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

By: nefilimd

nefilimd — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:26:30 +0000

works with logitech laser — vmware fedora 8 also. nice one thanks.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:52:43 +0000

Thanks. Worked perfectly with 8.04 LTS Desktop and my 3 button Microsoft wheel mouse. Under Vista with VMware 6.0.3 workstation.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:32:30 +0000

Sweet, man. I was trying the old 7.10 way myself, too… but it didn’t go. This makes everything scrollable again!