OpenSUSE on MacPorts' virtualbox with funny mouse behaviour

[Panayotis Katsaloulis]

On 30 Ιαν 2012, at 3:32 π.μ., Jasper Frumau wrote:

> Never thought about using VirtualBox via MacPorts. Sounds interesting. 
> 
> I would imagine it should work just the same as the VB dmeg you can download and install. 
> Perhaps a different version or compilation issue. Worth checking your logs.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:43 AM, Marko Käning <MK-MacPorts at techno.ms> wrote:
> 
>> Anyone out there who successfully works with virtualbox installed through MacPorts?
>> 
>> Since I am not so happy with my rather old Parallels 5 anymore I wanted to test virtualbox on my Snow Leopard.
>> I got OpenSUSE-Linux 12.1 installed, no problem.
>> 
>> But when I want to work with the virtual machine i noticed that the mouse events aren't handled correctly.
>> Somehow there is a lag of the mouse position and the click. So, if you click with the right finger onto the desktop you'll see the menu appear at the position of your previous right mouse-click. Already during installation in YaST I saw that there is some oddity, since I had to click every dialog button twice to really get it to react. But now I see that there is some fundamental problem with it.
>> 
>> Just wondering whether I am alone with this trouble or whether there are other VB users on this list who could tell me about their experience.
>> 
>> Greets,
>> Marko


Just a thought:
you might need to install the extra USB package for VB?