OpenSUSE on MacPorts' virtualbox with funny mouse behaviour

[James Linder]

On 30/01/2012, at 11:00 PM, macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org 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.

FWIW I use the propriority version of VBOX which has never caused me any problems at all including with SuSE 12.1

James