Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC patch status?

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
>> Furthermore, the main problem still prevails: There is no sane way to get 
>> the mouse running yet. I played around with a tablet patch someone sent 
>> me, but could not get it to run with a Win98 guest. Since this is my main 
>> use for qemu+vnc, I need a solution for this case.
> 
> I gave up and installed VNC in the guest OS, and then used '-redir'. But
> GUI/mouse responsiveness seemed pretty slow that way.
> 
> I think the best solution would be for someone to write a special qemu mouse
> driver for windows.

This is where win4lin-pro comes into its own.  They have grafted on their own graphics driver and 
load a little applet that keeps the mouse perfectly synchronised. It works well over vnc. (or did in 
any case, I have not booted it for quite a while)

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