Mouse extra buttons not working on VMWare

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I managed to run Whonix 17.1.3.1 on VMWare Workstation Pro 17.5.1 but my mouse side buttons (backward, forward buttons) aren’t working. I tried to add the code below on the .vmx file since it worked for Ubuntu but it didn’t work for Whonix.

usb.generic.allowHID = "TRUE"
mouse.vusb.enable = "TRUE"
mouse.vusb.useBasicMouse = "FALSE"

Any way to make it work?

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use KVM or Virtualbox, vmware is nonfree and unsupported hypervisor.