Re: [Qemu-devel] vmmouse

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Rick Vernam wrote:
> 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.
>   

Arrow keys are a separate problem.  I wasn't aware that vmmouse was 
having problems.  Does anyone know what changeset broke it?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> 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
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