[Discuss] Virtual Machine blocks screen saver

[John Blomfield]

I am running both Vmware Server and VirtualBox on the same Fedora 8 
Linux host and after a few tests it seems that only VirtualBox has this 
problem  Andrew suggested that mouse capture may be a problem but I have 
tried disabling the mouse capture on Virtual Box without any luck.  I 
did find one reference to a bug report for this problem.  VMware 1, 
VirtualBox 0.

Thanks to you both for the help.

John Blomfield


Steven Kurylo wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:55 PM, John Blomfield <jabfield at shaw.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know why the Linux host screen saver is blocked (won't start)
>> when a virtual machine is running?  Even when the guest OS is not visible
>> e.g. on another desktop panel.  However, the screen saver on a Windows guest
>> works.
>>     
>
> Which VM program? Which screen saver program?  I'm running VMware
> server on my desktop right now and xscreensaver has no problem
> starting.
>
>