Ubuntu and Virtual PC 2007 Mouse Issues

Installing Ubuntu 7.04 inside Virtual PC 2007 leaves the mouse completely unrecognized. Here are the two links that fixed it for me.

Donn Felker

2007.07.28 · 1 min read

I recently ran into an issue while installing Ubuntu to test Mono.

Apparently when you install Ubuntu 7.04 on Virtual PC 2007 the system doesn’t recognize the mouse. MAJOR SUCKAGE. Luckily I found a link that helped me through this and eventually got my mouse working for Ubuntu on VPC 2007.

This is mainly a post to log it for my own purposes, but hopefully it helps you as well. A big thanks to the guys who figured this out.

Links

How to emulate the mouse to install.
Once installed, how to get the mouse to work

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