Normally I'd suspect a driver issue, but the mice I tried (one of them beeing a genuine Microsoft mouse) don't need any additional drivers than what's proviced in the base OS to work. Conclusion: on teh laptop, the mouse does onle get some 'basic' support in the VM, seems like 'advaced' functions like scroll wheel and additional buttons are omitted. On the desktop, they work like intended, on the laptop they don't work. Further clue: one of my mice has side buttons. When I start the same VM(s) on my desktop computer, scroll wheel support is allright. When loaded by the laptop, there is no scrioll wheel support for the mouse in any of my VM(s), while the mouse buttons & mouse cursor work fine. The VM(s) needed reside on an external SSD drive, and I move the drive between the two computers as needed.
I am using two machines, a desktop computer (Windows 10 圆4) for office and a Laptop (Windows 7 圆4) for mobile work. Any ideas how I can track/fix this problem? Scroll wheel support is OK in the host, seems like scroll wheel support somewhow doesn't 'get through' to the Vms. On one of my computers, if I fire up a VM, the mouse lacks scroll wheel support inside the VM. I have a nagging problem with VMWare Workstation (latest Release 12.5.7 build-5813279).
