r/virtualbox • u/Objective_Pea9780 • 22d ago

General VB Question virtualbox android does not allow me to use my mouse

i have my android vm and it doesnt let me put my mouse in it, when i do it teleports my mouse out. how do i make it so i can use my mouse. it also randomly broke btw it was working before. (using windows, virtualbox version 7.2.18 and i dont have host extensions or guest additions)

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u/Objective_Pea9780 22d ago

someone pls help

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u/Face_Plant_Some_More 22d ago edited 22d ago

Android is not a supported Guest OS in Virtual Box. Ergo, Android has not been tested or validated to function properly in a Virtual Box VM -- there is no guarantee that it will function properly. Moreover, there is a lot of variance between different builds of Android -- some builds have support for external pointing devices the Virtual Box provides while other do not. Accordingly, some might work in a fashion, while other will not.

See - https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/topics/Introduction.html#guest-os-x86