Vmware: Mouse pointer stops for a sec when changing focus to guest

Solution 1:

The reason is, that every time I change focus numlock is changed too.

Background

The touchpad software of Dell (I guess it's synaptic) has a so called TouchGuard feature(I think its enabled by default), which prevents using the touchpad mousepointer while typing on the keyboard. It seems, that vmware is calling the numlock key every time I switch. So every time TouchGuard thinks "oh he is typing, mouse has to stop".

My other old VM works, because numlock simply doesn't have to change.

Solutions

• Either change the numlock so that guest and host have both numlock on or off.
• Or disable TouchGuard in your touchpad software configuration.

Update: Capslock key may obviously also have the same issue.