Thanks for your replay. I had the same issue before. When installing OS,
mouse not working, so I managed to use keyboard to get the installation done.
Then installing VM Additions. After that, the mouse back to normal.
"Bo Berglund" wrote:
Quote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:54:01 -0700, Ian
> <Ian@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Quote:
> >When starting installing Win2K8EE, mouse is not controllable so I cannot
> >continue. I always install Virtual Machine Additions after OS installed. So
> >how to do it before OS loaded so I can control mouse during the installation?
> >Thanks.
>
> The mouse is not tied to the VM Additions at all...
> THe VPC emulation presents a PS/2 mouse and keyboard to the virtual
> machine and any software that can handle that is able to start using
> the mouse. I have several guests where there simply does not exist VM
> Additions and yet the mouse works just fine.
>
> Your problem is somewhere else. (Maybe the operating system you are
> installing cannot recognize a PS/2 mouse?)
>
> --
>
> Bo Berglund (Sweden)
>