what is 'vmmouse'?

[Nathan Grennan]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> In updates from today a new package 'xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse' showed
> up. Its description is rather terse "X.Org X11 vmmouse input
> driver".  There is also 'man vmmouse' but it does not differ that
> much from 'man mouse-driver' from an already present package
> 'xorg-x11-drv-mouse'.
>
> SYNOPSIS section is the same in both cases and main differences are
> that some options are missing for vmmouse (EmulateWheelTimeout),
> some defaults are different, and vmmouse consistenly refers to
> XFree86, XF86Config, www.xfree86.org, ...  which does not look
> correct in the context.  Hence my question.
>   
  It is a vmware mouse driver for linux guests. It normally comes with 
VMware, but this makes it come with the distribution without having to 
install vmware-tools for it.