vmmouse_detect(9)

💅 vmmouse_detect(9) 💅

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — this is the page for vmmouse_detect(9), and it's literally the vibe check for whether vmmouse is available. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

• vmmouse_detect — Probe whether vmmouse is available

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int vmmouse_detect (struct psmouse *psmouse , bool set_properties );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• psmouse — Pointer to the psmouse struct
• set_properties — Whether to set psmouse name and vendor

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Returns 0 if vmmouse channel is available. Negative error code if not.

like, that's the whole tea, bestie: 0 means the vmmouse channel is available, and a negative error code means it's not. periodt. 💅

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• Kernel file ./drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.c
• struct vmmouse_data(9)
• vmmouse_report_button(9)
• vmmouse_report_events(9)
• vmmouse_process_byte(9)
• vmmouse_disable(9)
• vmmouse_enable(9)
• vmmouse_check_hypervisor(9)
• vmmouse_reset(9)
• vmmouse_disconnect(9)
• vmmouse_reconnect(9)
• vmmouse_init(9)

mwah 💋 — from the Kernel API Manual, source path ./drivers/input/mouse, dated October 2026, signing off as vmmouse_detect(9). 🫶✨