Re: pvfb: Absolute vs relative mouse tracking mystery

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

  On 08/01/2010 12:11 PM, Joshua West wrote:
>  On 06/21/2010 10:59 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> On 06/21/2010 03:57 PM, John Haxby wrote:
>>> On 19/06/10 16:48, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>>> Yes, that should be fixed in current xen-unstable - it was a xenbus
>>>> race-condition.  What guest are you seeing it in?  I've found that I
>>>> still don't get absolute pointers in Centos guests.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Do you know what the changeset it?  This has been bugging me for a
>>> while -- every now and again (just to taunt me) I get an absolute
>>> pointer.
>> It's in the qemu code, so you may need to explicitly make sure that has
>> been updated: "cd tools/ioemu-remote; git pull".
>>
>>      J
>>
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> Jeremy,
>
> Do you know if this will be fixed in the Xen 3.4.x series as well?  In 
> the 3.4.x ioemu-remote qemu code and the 2.6.18.8 xen kernel?
>
> I ask because this is an issue for me on RHEL5 domU's which are 
> paravirtualized.  Using Xen 3.4.3 w/ Xen kernel 2.6.18.8 and I'm not 
> yet ready to switch production clusters to 4.0.x.

RHEL/CentOS5 deliberately avoids using the absolute pointer mode for 
reasons I don't understand, so it is broken as expected.

     J