Mouse pointer appears black on PuTTY terminals opened from Windows 7 virtual machines

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When connecting to a Windows 7 virtual machine using Spice, the mouse pointer disappears when hovering over a PuTTY terminal. Why is this?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.1, 3.2
  • Guest: Windows 7

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