From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-88 release Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:00:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4A5B4C00.2000105@codemonkey.ws> References: <4A59E599.4080802@redhat.com> <4A59FBF2.2050904@gmail.com> <4A59FDB3.4040605@redhat.com> <4A5AF2FF.1040402@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4A5AF972.6070606@redhat.com> <4A5B05F6.40403@rdsoftware.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avi Kivity , KVM list To: Erik Rull Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f192.google.com ([209.85.221.192]:51488 "EHLO mail-qy0-f192.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756094AbZGMPAU (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:00:20 -0400 Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so702205qyk.33 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:00:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A5B05F6.40403@rdsoftware.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Erik Rull wrote: > Hi Avi, > > Avi Kivity wrote: >>>> Note -usbdevice tablet is only eating your cpu. >>> >>> It is not. Unless I don't understand something. >>> >>> With -usbdevice tablet mouse cursor/position is kept syncronized >>> without a need to grab mouse/keyboard. This is very handy and >>> easy. >> >> Right, I forgot that bit. I only remembered the better vnc behaviour >> on some clients. > > Could you give me a hint how to manage the auto-grab of mouse and > keyboard maybe with a patch? A pointer to the code where the grabbing > occurs within -usbdevice tablet) would be fine - I would try to add a > patch on that and also test it. Maybe it could be a new commandline > option (e.g. -autograb)? I don't understand what -autograb would do. What behavior are you looking for that's different from today? You cannot avoid autograb if you do not have an absolute pointer device (like a usb tablet). Regards, Anthony Liguori