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vmmouse_detect(1)

vmmouse_detect1

Vmware mouse device autodetection tool

Usage

vmmouse_detect

Options

vmmouse_detect has no options

Overview

vmmouse_detect is a tool for detecting if running in a VMware environment where vmmouse is used. It exits with a 0 return value if the vmmouse client is enabled, and 1 if not.

Diagnostics

vmmouse_detect's exit status is used to communicate information.

0

vmmouse_detect found a mouse and exited normally.

1

Either the vmmouse client was not enabled, or it is not being run from within a VMware virtual machine.

Licensing

The vmmouse_detect source code is licensed under a BSD-like license. See COPYING for details.

This manual page is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 8 (Jessie)
  • Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

Bugs

Please report bugs in vmmouse_detect <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdetect/vmmouse_detect>.

Authors

vmmouse_detect is copyright 2007 VMware, Inc.

From xf86-input-vmmouse 13.2.0-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.