Trying to use Barrier to overcome the lack of the XHCI drivers in Windows 7 to move the mouse pointer

[Marietto2008]

Hello.

The problem that I have is that I'm not able to move the mouse pointer inside the Windows 7 VM x64 bit virtualized with bhyve (the best hypervisor in the BSD world) and I want to find a solution.

Maybe an idea could be to enable usb 3.0 on my Windows 7 x64 bit VM. For example windows 8 work well with xhci devices while win7 x64 bit sp1 doesn't. I have googled usb3 drivers for win7, but none of them work. This is the parameter that I need to add in bhyve to pass thru the xhci USB 3.0 devices that I use (mouse and keyboard (the keyboard works,I don't know why,but the mouse does not)

-s 30,xhci,tablet \

Let's say for a moment that I will not search for the correct drivers to install within the VM,but that I want to use Barrier. The idea is to move the pointer of my mouse inside in and inside out of the VM,configuring correctly client and server,hoping that this will overcome the absence of the xhci driver in Windows 7.

Really,I tried to apply that idea. I've configured barrier inside Windows 7 as server and on the host os as client. I've been able to establish a connection between them. But it didn't work. I don't see that the pointer of the mouse is moving at all. Can someone explain to me why ? Does Barrier have the needing that the os that acts as a server (and maybe even as a client),has the USB drivers properly configured ?

Let me know,thanks.