Public bug reported: First, see bug 69780 about making sure the vmmouse driver is in main (or it won't be available to use at install time).
To provide the best user experience for someone installing Ubuntu into a VM, the vmware mouse driver should be autoselected just as the video driver is. Now, the video driver detection is handled by Xorg but it has no support for mouse detection, so the work will have to be done separately. Detecting mouse support is a relatively simple operation and readily reusable code exists inside the mouse driver itself. See VMMouseClientVMCheck here: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/vmmouse_client.c http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/vmmouse_proto.c These files can be taken and dropped in anywhere appropriate to do the test (of course, the rest of the mouse functions are not needed) ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- installer and livecd should detect vmware mouse device and use the right driver https://launchpad.net/bugs/71167 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
