From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LSeUN-0002vX-OB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:31:55 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LSeUL-0002uU-4F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:31:54 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35077 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LSeUK-0002uR-Uh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:31:52 -0500 Received: from hobi.com ([130.94.185.247]:1577) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSeUK-0000Ul-F7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:31:52 -0500 From: Rick Vernam Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmmouse Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:31:46 -0600 References: <200901292058.n0TKwRwG044115@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <200901292058.n0TKwRwG044115@saturn.kn-bremen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901291531.48496.rickv@hobi.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Juergen Lock Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thursday 29 January 2009 2:58:27 pm you wrote: > In article <200901282248.26006.rickv@hobi.com> you write: > >For the past few days (10-15, longer?) both my windows vms seem to have > > broken mice - the mouse cursor does not move in the guest... > >Both guests run windows (2k,xp) and both have vmware mouse driver > > installed (not sure which version, off the top of my head). > > > >I've not followed the list too closely during this time period either - in > >trying to catch up tonight I haven't seen anything on this subject, so I'm > >posting to see if this is a known issue... > > > >I built qemu with DEBUG_VMMOUSE turned on in hw/vmmouse.c. > >When I run qemu I get a single vmmouse_init right when qemu starts, but > > then no additional output. > > > >Perhaps this is a separate issue, but when I "usb_add tablet" the mouse > > cursor becomes constrained to the upper left corner of the guests' > > screen. > > > >Any ideas about what might be going on? > >Thanks > > `It's dead, Jim!' ;) > > Yeah, I had reported vmmouse brokenness before (for linux guests): > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-01/msg01061.html > > I guess its good (in a way) you confirm its broken for windows > guests too... > > Juergen It seems the brokenness extends beyond the mouse - the arrow keys on the keyboard are not behaving correctly either, although the arrows on the keypad are working correctly. Another example: when qemu grabs the input, in the past I've been able to hit ctrl-alt-delete to send those keys to the guest...this no longer works. I have to go to the qemu monitor and do a sendkey ctrl-alt-delete