Re: [Qemu-devel] Disable PS/2 mouse

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 06/10/2010 09:12 AM, Dor Laor wrote:
> On 06/09/2010 05:35 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> with 0.12.4 it is still the case that a total idle vm takes about 6-8%
>>> of a 2.4GHz Xeon Core.
>>
>> I see that order of magitude too, no matter whenever usb is on or off.
>> With older qemu and usbtablet it used to be up to 25%.
>
> Is it possible to dynamically control the refresh internally within qemu
> so VMs without a connected VNC client will have rare refreshes or no
> refresh at all? I hope it's not the OS who polls it.

vnc/vga or usb tablet?

For the vga it happens already, with no vnc client connected vnc zaps 
the refresh timer and stops calling vga_hw_update(), thus vga stops 
doing framebuffer dirty tracking too.

For usb hid devices:  No idea how they work and whenever we can put them 
into sleep somehow (with/without guest cooperation).

cheers,
   Gerd