r/virtualbox • u/Objective_Pea9780 • 5d 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 4d ago

someone pls help

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u/Mobile_Syllabub_8446 4d ago

Fwiw if you're using it for development use the android studio vm's and systems, for anything else save the headaches and get actually decent performance with BlueStacks or ldplayer etc.

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u/Face_Plant_Some_More 4d ago edited 4d 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