VMWare tools mouse tracking after upgrade

In this tutorial I am going to explain and show the weird behavior (mouse tracking) of VMWare tools after they  have been upgraded. I have seen this on VMWare Server guest machines and also on the VMWare Workstation 6. I don’t like to reinstall and create master images of different operating systems everyday so therefore I use templates These templates may have been created with older versions of VMWare server or Workstation. After the virtual machine has been brought up you will notice a warning that the VMWare tools are out of date. Couple times I did that and after the reboot the mouse did not work properly. The following steps will show what happened.

Right click VMWare guest and install VMWare tools

Click yes

Click next

Click finish and reboot.

After the reboot the VMWare Tools installed successfully is show on the left corner.

CRTL-ALT-INSERT and login. Desktop is loaded and than I start using mouse; the screen above show what happened when I double clicked on the SCVMM Admin console.

I found out that the VMWare Pointing Device is giving problems after the VMWare tools upgrade and my solution is to uninstall it.

Click yes to reboot.

After the reboot PS/2 Compatible mouse has been installed. Mouse is now working within the virtual guest machine. I found one article at VMWare describing similar problem.