From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: spice-devel <spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] paravirtual tablet v3
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:20:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D35AFB8.3020605@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3599B6.5050002@redhat.com>
On 01/18/2011 07:46 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> Sure, someone needs to map multitouch to non-multitouch. I'd leave
>>> that job to the guest driver tough. Why do you think doing it in the
>>> host is better?
>>
>> My assumptions are 1) the host is capable of doing the mapping just as
>> easily as the guest
>
> Probably.
>
>> 2) the host can do something useful with the
>> information that the guest is not multitouch capable.
>
> What do you think of here?
Imagine a nice looking GUI, you would likely have icons representing the
mouse status. You've got at least PS/2 mouse, PS/2 mouse with capture,
PV mouse in absolute mode, PV mouse in multitouch mode, etc.
VirtualBox has an interface like this FWIW (although not multitouch aware).
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-18 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-14 16:35 [Qemu-devel] paravirtual tablet v3 Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-14 20:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-17 8:19 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-17 15:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-18 13:46 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-18 15:20 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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