Re: kvm 58 and vncviewer

Jerry Geis
2008-01-04T01:13:54Z

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Jerry Geis wrote:
>>>> I have kvm-amd working fine.
>>>>
>>>> when I am at my desktop everything works normal.
>>>> However, when I vncviewer into my desktop and startup my
>>>> session I mouse over the XP desktop but I cannot click in the desktop
>>>> and make it active. I get the little square mouse pointer.
>>>>
>>>> I have to do the crl-alt to release the mouse but I cannot click
>>>> into the desktop
>>>> to run anything.
>>>>
>>>
>>> vncviewer does not do mouse grab so I'm not terribly sure what
>>> you're talking about. Are you sure you're using vncviewer and not SDL?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Anthony Liguori
>>>
>>>> What might I be missing?
>>>>
>>>> jerry
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> Anthony,
>>
>> I dont exactly know what SDL is.
>>
>> All I know is when I am at my desk everything is working fine...
>> Then I go home and use "vncviewer machine" to remote into my desktop.
>> Everything runs normal of course but when I select my minimized kvm
>> session,
>> it maximizes but I cannot click in the XP session to give it focus.
>> All I get is the
>> little square mouse pointer like you get when you move the mouse off
>> the kvm window
>> and kvm has grabbed the mouse. I cannot ever select anything in the
>> XP window accessing my
>> machine with vncviewer.
>
> If you add "-usb -usbdevice tablet" to your QEMU command, you should
> haven't this problem anymore.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>> I am using centos 5.1 and now kvm-59.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>
>
Thanks - that does work.

Jerry