Re: [Qemu-devel] vmmouse

[Rick Vernam <rickv@hobi.com>]

On Thursday 29 January 2009 5:20:20 pm andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2009/1/29 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>:
> > Rick Vernam wrote:
> >> On Thursday 29 January 2009 2:58:27 pm you wrote:
> >>> In article <200901282248.26006.rickv@hobi.com> 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?
>
> I hit the issue with the generic tablet.  Hopefully fixed it in r6476.
tablet is better.  thanks.

>
> Cheers