[Qemu-devel] Re: [Spice-devel] paravirtual mouse/tablet, v5

[Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 04:32:40PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> >>typedef struct qemu_pvmouse_ack {
> >>     uint32_t features; /* qemu_pvtable_features */
> >
> >Why does this comment say "qemu_pvtable_features" and the one above
> >says "qemu_pvmouse_features"?
> 
> Not intentional, will fix.  Leftover because it is misspelled (t in
> table*t* missing), so the search+replace didn't catch it.
> 
> >>};
> >>
> >>
> >>enum qemu_pvmouse_axis_type {
> >>     /* absolute */
> >>     QEMU_PVMOUSE_AXIS_POS_X = 1,
> >>     QEMU_PVMOUSE_AXIS_POS_Y,
> >>     QEMU_PVMOUSE_AXIS_PRESSURE,
> >>
> >
> >So is the concensus to not treat 3d mice as core protocol?
> >just a AXIS_POS_Z and AXIS_REL_Z I think would be simple to
> >add. Running cad apps in a vm seems possible.
> 
> That list isn't meant to be complete, I'll happily take suggestions
> for axises we should add here.  *_Z for a 3d mouse certainly is
> reasonable.
> 
> >What's the outcome of the discussion with Peter? wasn't there
> >a suggestion to send information from the host to the guest about
> >monitor configuration, so guest can do inverse to send correct
> >coordinates to host?
> 
> Yep.  I think that isn't something for the pvmouse but for vdagent
> though.  In the simplest case make VDAgentMonitorsConfig
> bidirectional, so the guest can send feedback to the spice client
> and inform how the actual configuration looks like.
> 

Ok, sounds good.

> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
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