Hi,
I've been going through the learning process of running a windows VM on FreeNAS. I have been able to create the VM, install windows 7 professional and load the virtual IO drivers onto the windows VM. Throughout the whole process the mouse hasn't worked using VNC viewer or the web VNC on FreeNAS. Just to test things out I tried loading a Ubuntu VM and the mouse was working during the installation of the software so that rules out anything specific to FreeNAS or VNC.
When looking at the device manager I noticed that the Universal Serial Bus Controller drivers aren't installed (yellow exclamation mark next to the device). I tried uninstalling the device from the list and then restarting the VM and it still doesn't install the drivers successfully. I have also tried manually installing the drivers using the "search automatically for updates" option but that doesn't work either.
Is there some specific drivers that I need to install to get the USB controller to work? I find it odd that the keyboard works but the mouse doesn't.
I'm am using FreeNAS-11.1-U1. The PC is a Dell Poweredge T30 Server with an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 v5 @ 3.30GHz processor and 8GB RAM.
Update: After installing windows 7 and enabling remote access I was able to use windows remote desktop to remotely access the VM. When using this the mouse works. I was also having keyboard issues where the backslash wouldn't work even though the VM is setup for UK keyboards which goes away when using windows remote desktop. It looks like the issue lies somewhere with VNC (Bhyve)?
I've been going through the learning process of running a windows VM on FreeNAS. I have been able to create the VM, install windows 7 professional and load the virtual IO drivers onto the windows VM. Throughout the whole process the mouse hasn't worked using VNC viewer or the web VNC on FreeNAS. Just to test things out I tried loading a Ubuntu VM and the mouse was working during the installation of the software so that rules out anything specific to FreeNAS or VNC.
When looking at the device manager I noticed that the Universal Serial Bus Controller drivers aren't installed (yellow exclamation mark next to the device). I tried uninstalling the device from the list and then restarting the VM and it still doesn't install the drivers successfully. I have also tried manually installing the drivers using the "search automatically for updates" option but that doesn't work either.
Is there some specific drivers that I need to install to get the USB controller to work? I find it odd that the keyboard works but the mouse doesn't.
I'm am using FreeNAS-11.1-U1. The PC is a Dell Poweredge T30 Server with an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 v5 @ 3.30GHz processor and 8GB RAM.
Update: After installing windows 7 and enabling remote access I was able to use windows remote desktop to remotely access the VM. When using this the mouse works. I was also having keyboard issues where the backslash wouldn't work even though the VM is setup for UK keyboards which goes away when using windows remote desktop. It looks like the issue lies somewhere with VNC (Bhyve)?
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