Hey everyone,
I have Kali running as a VM on VMware Workstation Pro 16. When I am moving the mouse my cursor weirdly flickers and I also can't scroll at all. I have tried recording the flickering with OBS from my host and with Kazam from within Kali but it is not visible.

What I have tried:
  • VMware Workstation Player 16 instead of Workstation Pro 16
  • Installed it multiple times
  • Rebooted
  • Used the prebuilt VM image
  • Played around with mouse settings in both kali and VMWare (turned gaming mode on and off)
  • Googled (a lot)


Something that I have noticed is that there are three mice connected to Kali.

1 USB Mouse and 2 PS/2 Mice. It seems like only one of the two PS/2 mice is needed as I can turn the USB Mouse and PS/2 Mouse off without a problem. Once I turn off the one PS/2 Mouse (which is apparently the real one) though, the cursor stops flickering and I can still move the cursor but my clicks are not registered.

I have never encountered something like this in any of my previous Kali VMs and I am kind of stuck here.
Any help is greatly appreciated and if you need any more details feel free to ask and I will try to respond as fast as I can