Invisible cursor in VirtualBox

I installed NixOS on a virtual machine using the manual but when I reach the desktop (I tried GNOME and Cinnamon) the cursor is invisible.

It is there; if you move on an icon it gets highlighted and if you guess the position you can click on things, but the cursor itself is hidden.

I should say that I disabled virtualbox.guest option commented out because it caused the install to not work (nixos-install error messages)

Is there something that could be done?