Why mouse movement is laggy in RHEL virtual machines running on vmware?
Issue
Mouse
movement islaggy
orsluggish
in RHEL virtual machines running in avmware
environment.- If the mouse is moved onto the desktop, with official vmware tools installed and running (vmtoolsd) the mouse is laggy.
- When leaving the desktop, the mouse remains trapped on the desktop and does not smoothly switch to host desktop environment.
- However, same setup with UbuntuServer X/GNOME installed along with VMWare Tools works great.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines (5 and 6)
- VMWARE
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