vmware Can't move cursor

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I installed FreeBSD 13.1 on VMware ESXi 6.7. Then I installed Xfce. The problem is that I can't move the cursor. The mouse buttons and mouse wheel are working.
 
my setup for FreeBSD guests on VMware products:

VMware Tools:
# pkg install -y open-vm-tools
# pkg install -y xf86-video-vmware
# pkg install -y xf86-input-vmmouse

Services:
# sysrc vmware_guest_vmblock_enable="YES"
# sysrc vmware_guest_vmhgfs_enable="YES"
# sysrc vmware_guest_vmmemctl_enable="YES"
# sysrc vmware_guest_vmxnet_enable="YES"
# sysrc vmware_guestd_enable="YES"

# X11 config file (/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vmware.conf)
Code: 
Section "ServerFlags"
   Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse0"
   Driver "vmmouse"
   Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
EndSection

...gathered from the FreeBSD Handbook and the web... ;)
 
That's a pity. With VMware Player & Workstation I never had any mouse issues with my suggested setup. Maybe ESXi behaves a little different. I don't know...
 
This is what is working on Kamatera Cloud-computing platform for me (it's VMWare under)

Code: 
pkg ins -y xf86-input-vmmouse
then
put this in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-vmmouse.conf
Code: 
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier    "vmmouse"
    MatchIsPointer "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Driver        "vmmouse"
EndSection

then
Code: 
sysrc moused_enable=YES

then
Code: 
reboot

I have slim/xfce, mouse is perfectly working
 
I'm running FreeBSD 14 + XFCE, in VMware Player 17, on Manjaro,
and don't get mouse + keyboard integration.

The 2 answers above are rather different; haven't tried either yet.

While searching for clues I found :
VMware support for Open VM Tools on FreeBSD (2149806)
Last Updated: 01/05/2020

Text copy & paste in UI as well as DND
are impacted by Xorg changes that do not allow
the vmmouse driver to be associated with the X11 screen.
Click to expand...
I thought this implied that `open-vm-tools-nox11` might work in terminal,
but `open-vm-tools-nox11` has been deleted from freshports.org (last update 2021-03).
 
I wrote
Text copy & paste in UI ... are impacted by Xorg changes
Click to expand...
but clipboard sharing with the host is actually working, so that article might be no longer correct.
Mouse capture is easy, just click in the guest window, no need for Ctrl+G, but releasing it still needs Ctrl+Alt.
 
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