Cursor doesn't work at all in Windows 7 VM (GNOME Boxes)

I am aware that this site doesn’t support Windows, due to it not being free software, but since I need it for some work-related applications, I use a VM; the problem is that the cursor doesn’t work at all in the VM, neither in the installer nor the actual installed OS. The keyboard works, and I can navigate that way, but it’s quite inconvenient. I haven’t tried a different OS (i.e., a GNU/Linux-based OS), but was wondering if anyone had any ideas about how to fix it. Thanks!

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You probably need to install the guest additions for the Spice protocol that GNOME Boxes uses, see the “guest” section of https://www.spice-space.org/download.html (if your guest OS is Linux it’s a matter of installing the “spice-vdagent” package, if Windows you have an installer for “spice-guest-tools”.

There may also be some blog posts and tutorials about all this on the Internet, here’s an example: https://ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-win10-in-gnome-boxes

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