Public bug reported:

Environment:
Ubuntu 12.10, Mint 14
package affected: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6

Quick problem description:
Everything is explained in the title. I would only add, that this bug occurs 
randomly.
You can see how the issue affects user experience on this video:

http://youtu.be/jhPlnspr0j8

Link found on the Linux Mint Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1082228

The source of this bug is the same of course but it seems like no one
has taken care of it.

How to resolve it:
Simply apply this update:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=3d1051aecbb1955084804133cacd12c7f696833a

It is confirmed that this commit fixes the issue:

- https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10853 (see comments)
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54353
- Fedora 17 (update applied as patch)

NOTE:
This bug does NOT come from any of the VirtualBox' components so please don't 
shift blame to its Ubuntu package maintainers.

** Affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: mouse virtualbox x11

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Title:
  Mouse keeps reseting its position to (0, 0) when Ubuntu run as a guest
  in VirtualBox

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