Mouse support in Hyper-V

This is how to add mouse support to the LICs (Linux Integration Components) provided by Microsoft. This does not involve using the Beta version of the LICs at all, it is all done with the production release version.

Firstly install everything else involved in getting the LICs working. There is another article in this blog that will explain how to get the LICs working with RedHat or CentOS 5.2.

On your Windows 2008 or Hyper-V server, download the “inputvsc.iso” from
http://www.xen.org/download/satori.html.
Using the Hyper-V “Connect” window and its Media menu, set the DVD drive to point to the “inputvsc.iso” you just downloaded.
In the virtual machine, “mkdir /mnt” and “mount /dev/hdc /mnt”. That should mount the ISO on /mnt.
Make somewhere to put it, such as “mkdir -p /opt/inputdriver”.
Copy the contents of the ISO to there, “cp -pr /mnt/* /opt/inputdriver”.
Unmount the ISO, “umount /mnt”.
Eject the media using the Media menu in the Hyper-V “Connect” window.
Go into that directory, “cd /opt/inputdriver”.
Install one required package, “yum install xorg-x11-server-sdk”.
Install the mouse driver, “perl setup.pl inputdriver”.
That should succeed.

Start X Windows with “startx” to test it. If the mouse support doesn’t work, you can always kill X by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, or by logging in remotely to the virtual machine as root and typing “killall X”.

That’s about it. It worked fine for me!
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