From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FSQ7L-0000UA-Cl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:57:35 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FSQ7J-0000TD-CZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:57:34 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSQ7J-0000T3-50 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:57:33 -0400 Received: from [32.97.182.141] (helo=e1.ny.us.ibm.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FSQBd-0001VO-1k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:02:01 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k392vWBv008046 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:57:32 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.8) with ESMTP id k392vWeO170510 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:57:32 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k392vVhh027835 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:57:32 -0400 Message-ID: <44387819.1030107@us.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:57:29 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC terminal server? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: balrogg@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org andrzej zaborowski wrote: > Hi, > > > >> IMHO the biggest obstacle to inclusion in mainline QEmu is that the mouse >> support is rather flakey: You have to disable mouse acceleration of the >> guest OS. >> >> I had that cunning plan to write a virtual Wacom tablet, but I just don't >> find the time. >> >> > I thought Anthony Liguori had already written a Wacom tablet emulator > for QEMU and that worked fine except it supports only one button. I > don't remember if this support was complete and I don't have a link to > the patch. > No, it supports all three. Works quite well for new X drivers. If you search the wacom-devel archives you'll find a link to the docs for the Wacom driver. It does kind of suck though that you have to manually configure your X server. I looked at a number of tablets and they all seem to be serial or undocumented. Regards, Anthony Liguori > With this you don't need to disable mouse acceleration in the guest OS > because it makes no sense to accelerate a tablet. > > On the other hand writing a guest-side driver for QEMU would leave > room for further improvements like hiding/showing or > grabbing/releasing the mouse at specific moments. Or, possibly reusing > tools from Win4Lin or VMtools from VMware. > >> Ciao, >> Dscho >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qemu-devel mailing list >> Qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel >> >> > > > -- > balrog 2oo6 > > Dear Outlook users: Please remove me from your address books > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/143258 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel >