From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: pvfb: Absolute vs relative mouse tracking mystery Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:40:16 -0700 Message-ID: <4C571F20.5010903@goop.org> References: <4BE49501.6000408@goop.org> <4BE86945.9050408@goop.org> <20100619154145.GM17817@reaktio.net> <4C1CE6DE.8000602@goop.org> <4C1F7DC4.3090706@oracle.com> <4C1F7E58.8030605@goop.org> <4C55C6CD.40200@brandeis.edu> <4C5715C9.3030006@goop.org> <4C571E88.3050704@brandeis.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C571E88.3050704@brandeis.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Joshua West Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 08/02/2010 12:37 PM, Joshua West wrote: > On 08/02/10 15:00, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> On 08/01/2010 12:11 PM, Joshua West wrote: >>> 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 > > Ahh yes, but thats if you're using the RHEL/CentOS Xen kernel. I'm > not using a RHEL kernel... instead I'm using linux-2.6.18-xen.hg, but > still the issue persists on RHEL5 domU's. OK, in that case it would be worth looking at backporting the changes to older Xens. J