Hello,
I'm having a weird issue. I have a windows machine running Virtual Server 2005 SP1. I have installed a linux vm running RHEL 5. I have a dell USB keyboard and an HP usb optical roller-wheel 2 button mouse connected to the built in usb ports. The keyboard and mouse both work fine on the host OS (windows), but my mouse is not working on my linux guest os (vm). I have correctly configured xorg.conf per microsofts instructions. Here's what's weird. I had this machine setup exactly as it is now, but i had to completely format it.....the mouse used to work with no problems. Now it doesn't. Can anyone give me any tips. i have done some searching thru other posts and i haven't found anything to solve the problem. I don't have ps2 ports to try on this machine....i can only use usb devices. Also, i have checked /var/log/messages and can't find anything out of ordinary. Here are a couple of messages that may or may not be pertinent:
-local APIC disabled by BIOS--you can enable it with "lapic"
-No Dock Devices Found
-mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

also, i found in another post that the "gpm" service can cause issues like this. gpm is running on this box. however, i don't know what it is so i didn't want to stop it?

any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Well, i have done a little more research. i had RHEL 5 installed as the guest OS's and it was working just fine prior to formatting my host machine, . After I formated my host machine, i downloaded new ISO's from redhat, which was RHEL 5.2 (i thought it was the initial RHEL 5)So, i searched all over the web and apparently, the problem lies with the new kernel. I also learned that MS Virtual Server 2005 emulates the host mouse and keyboard to guest OS's as PS/2 devices (no matter if they are usb or PS/2). so it sounds like RHEL 5.2 has issues with PS/2 devices. I also found some articles that discussed rebuilding the kernel to fix this, but to be honest i don't have enough experience for that. I'm not about to do that over a mouse.........so i'm reverting back to regular RHEL 5. I will update this post if that fixes my issue....if it does, there must be some way to report this bug to redhat.