Vista - Keyboard/Mouse not working, i believe its vmadditions problem?

Hi

Im getting an error there was a problem installing this hardware vm
additions pc/at enhanced ps/2 keyboard. This error started happening on a
gust operating system (winxp) when i had to do a repair installation. I
believe its a vm additions problem , but how do i uninstall / reinstall vm
additions if my keyboard and mouse are not working?
Any help would be very welcome. Thanks alot in advance.

kavaman

If you can boot into safe mode the keyboard and mouse may work there
and if they do, then open device manager and delete the mouse and then
reboot and see if it changes anything. If not try deleting only the
keyboard. Once you get some input method working, then you just
uninstall the additions and reinstall them.

--
Bob Comer


On Sat, 30 Au 2008 09:59:00 -0700, kavaman
<kavaman@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:14:18 -0400, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, FACE
<AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx>, wrote
Stay with me here.........

With the VM running, and from the VPC console, go into settings for the
VM, click on mouse pointer integration, click it to the 'off' state, "OK"
out of settings.
On the running VM -- using the right top radio button on the VM frame,
shut down the VM.
Reboot the VM.
Any difference? IOW, do you now have a pointer that must be captured, but
which then works?

FACE

Cannot get into safe mode. It stops at login because i cannot choose which
profile to login. Also the cannot shutdown guest operations system because of
an application failure because i cannot use a mouse to shutdown the
application (its an app that starts on windows startup).
Keyboard does work before booting, because i get to choose which profile i
want to login to windows.
Is there anything i could do to the inf files on command prompt to try to
restore them and get the keyboard and mouse working trough that?

thefan


"FACE" wrote:

Sorry, cant pick up a profile when safe mode logs in ( i have two profiles)
administrator and my other profile. Which means keyboard and mouse do not
work when windows starts on safe mode, but before windows loads they do. I
was hoping i could delete some inf file at command prompt which seems to be
causing the problem?


"FACE" wrote:

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Has anyone heard of the "deadly embrace"?

It seems there is more possibility of this under MS VPC than other apps,
so how do MS OSes handle write collisions?

FACE

On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:13:46 -0400, FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx>
wrote:
You can't use one VHD with 2 VMs simultaneously...unless you've set up
differencing disks. Once the first VM uses the VHD, it is right
protected and a 2nd VM can write to it and most likely will just fail
to boot.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.

So basically i can only copy the files out from the f...ed up vhd using it as
a d drive on a working vhd? Is there some way to get the non working vhd back
to working using this method? Can i somehow remove the vmadditions from the
non working vhd this way, if you know what i mean? THANKS!





"Steve Jain" wrote:

It is really no different from the situation with a physical hard disk
which won't boot. The only way to read it is to somehow boot the the machine
by some other means and then try to read files on the sick disk.

"kavaman" <kavaman@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6FC2CAE1-A538-429A-A798-C71A1664D835@xxxxxx

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:50:45 +1000, "Bill Grant" <not.available@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Except that with WinImage you can open a VHD file and read/extract
files from it onto the host system. Of course the VHD file must not be
in use by a running guest when this is done...

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)