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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:20:24 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] paravirtual tablet v3
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: spice-devel <spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

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
>
>