Re: [Qemu-devel] vmmouse

[Anthony Liguori]

Rick Vernam wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2009 2:58:27 pm you wrote:
>   
> > In article <address@hidden> you write:
> >     
> > > For the past few days (10-15, longer?) both my windows vms seem to have
> > > broken mice - the mouse cursor does not move in the guest...
> > > Both guests run windows (2k,xp) and both have vmware mouse driver
> > > installed (not sure which version, off the top of my head).
> > >
> > > I've not followed the list too closely during this time period either - in
> > > trying to catch up tonight I haven't seen anything on this subject, so I'm
> > > posting to see if this is a known issue...
> > >
> > > I built qemu with DEBUG_VMMOUSE turned on in hw/vmmouse.c.
> > > When I run qemu I get a single vmmouse_init right when qemu starts, but
> > > then no additional output.
> > >
> > > Perhaps this is a separate issue, but when I "usb_add tablet" the mouse
> > > cursor becomes constrained to the upper left corner of the guests'
> > > screen.
> > >
> > > Any ideas about what might be going on?
> > > Thanks
> > >       
> > `It's dead, Jim!' ;)
> >
> >  Yeah, I had reported vmmouse brokenness before (for linux guests):
> >         http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-01/msg01061.html
> >
> >  I guess its good (in a way) you confirm its broken for windows
> > guests too...
> >
> >         Juergen
> >     
>
> It seems the brokenness extends beyond the mouse - the arrow keys on the 
> keyboard are not behaving correctly either, although the arrows on the keypad 
> are working correctly.
>   

Arrow keys are a separate problem.  I wasn't aware that vmmouse was 
having problems.  Does anyone know what changeset broke it?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Another example: when qemu grabs the input, in the past I've been able to hit 
> ctrl-alt-delete to send those keys to the guest...this no longer works.  I 
> have to go to the qemu monitor and do a sendkey ctrl-alt-delete
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