Re: [Qemu-devel] multihead & multiseat in qemu

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Gerd Hoffmann (address@hidden) wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > > I'd like to have some way to assign tags such as seat=foo or head=1 to
> > > devices.  Preferably in some way which can easily picked up with udev
> > > rules, so it is easily usable by system-logind and Xorg server.
> > 
> > Can't you just do this in the serial number strings for both monitor EDID
> > and USB device, I'm assuming that's how current multiseat setups figure
> > stuff out.
> 
> We don't emulate monitor EDID ...
> 
> Also the serial number for HID devices is (ab-)used to signal remote
> wakeup support (see commit 7b074a22dab4bdda9864b933f1bc811a3db42845).

Oh dear, that's a shame to use a field like that for a single bit of info.

Dave
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK