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VMware/Parallels Cursor "Invisibility"
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Hey all :-) I've got a small dilemma regarding cursors in virtual machines (both VMware and Parallels) that I hope to find a solution to.
I do most of my development work at my day job on a Windows machine, and I decided to set up a virtual machine on my MBP similar to my work machine. I program web apps, and use a black background for my code. On a real Windows machine, the "I" bar cursor inverts to white when hovering over a black background. In VMware and Parallels, the cursor stays black, making for black-on-black and an "invisible" cursor. Is there any way to get the guest OS to respect what the OS is telling the system to do?
I saw no change after installing VMware and Parallels Windows tools, either. This one's got me stumped! Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Last edited by macgyvr64; Aug 11, 2007 at 10:21 PM.
Reason: Typo)
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The mouse control panel lets you change your pointers also stardock.com offers programs to alter the look and feel of windows. I believe they have an app that allows you to customize icons and pointers.
Finally, I think its a lot easier to change your background to a different color so this isn't a problem.
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That's interesting. I can confirm the behavior, but I assumed it was normal for Windows. After all, even in Parallels, it's Windows drawing the cursor, not Mac OS.
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But it's not necessarily using a Windows driver to do the drawing. I haven't seen this actual behavior, but Parallels uses its own drivers for a lot of stuff, and the cursor is part of the video system. Is Parallels actually using the native display driver or its own? (I haven't played with Parallels in quite a while-too busy-so I don't recall which way it goes.)
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Originally Posted by ghporter 
But it's not necessarily using a Windows driver to do the drawing. I haven't seen this actual behavior, but Parallels uses its own drivers for a lot of stuff, and the cursor is part of the video system. Is Parallels actually using the native display driver or its own? (I haven't played with Parallels in quite a while-too busy-so I don't recall which way it goes.)
I haven't checked Parallels, but VMware sure is using its own mouse driver (so says Windows Device Manager). I assume its using the VMware device to better pass data to the VM (the cursor retains the Mac's distinctive mouse acceleration while in the VM, instead of Windows' native). I wonder if there's a way around this...
Update
Changing the cursor style to "Windows Black (system scheme)" puts a white line around the I-bar cursor and makes the regular pointer much like the Mac cursor. That'll work! I just needed to be able to see it over black.
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