I'm running 18.04 LTS, and while I have many smatterings of Linux experience over the years, I think I'm still a newbie. I migrated from Win7 about a month ago.
While using a virtual machine, sometimes both mouse buttons stop working. The pointer can move around the screen, but clicking does nothing. It affects the host as well as the VM, and the only solution I've found to mostly work is to switch to a console (ctrl+alt+F1), then steadily switch consoles back to X. However, on occasion this solution doesn't work and I'm left with a flashing cursor in the top-left corner and not being able to switch to a console. Lubuntu installed the Linux AMD GPU driver. System is set up with UEFI but with secure boot disabled.
I considered changing to another piece of virtual machine software, but my attempts to install VMware failed after the initial installation of the software when it wanted to run first-time configuration and was failing to install a monitor driver. I researched solutions for that but they mostly revolved around 'disable secure boot' even though Win10 already says that secure boot is disabled (I relegated Windows to the role of gaming OS, dual-booting with Lubuntu as the primary).
The virtualbox issue isn't VM specific, I'm pretty sure I've had it with both my XP VM and a Lubuntu VM that I was using for testing. Both VMs pre-date the Lubuntu installation as my primary OS (I told virtualbox to export the VMs then re-imported them under Lubuntu).
So I guess I'm either asking for a recommendation for virtual machine software to replace virtualbox or ideas for how to fix the virtualbox issue please!
While using a virtual machine, sometimes both mouse buttons stop working. The pointer can move around the screen, but clicking does nothing. It affects the host as well as the VM, and the only solution I've found to mostly work is to switch to a console (ctrl+alt+F1), then steadily switch consoles back to X. However, on occasion this solution doesn't work and I'm left with a flashing cursor in the top-left corner and not being able to switch to a console. Lubuntu installed the Linux AMD GPU driver. System is set up with UEFI but with secure boot disabled.
I considered changing to another piece of virtual machine software, but my attempts to install VMware failed after the initial installation of the software when it wanted to run first-time configuration and was failing to install a monitor driver. I researched solutions for that but they mostly revolved around 'disable secure boot' even though Win10 already says that secure boot is disabled (I relegated Windows to the role of gaming OS, dual-booting with Lubuntu as the primary).
The virtualbox issue isn't VM specific, I'm pretty sure I've had it with both my XP VM and a Lubuntu VM that I was using for testing. Both VMs pre-date the Lubuntu installation as my primary OS (I told virtualbox to export the VMs then re-imported them under Lubuntu).
So I guess I'm either asking for a recommendation for virtual machine software to replace virtualbox or ideas for how to fix the virtualbox issue please!