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From: Heyi Guo <guoheyi@huawei.com>
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Hi Gerd,

One more question: do you know any VNC client which supports rich cursor =
extension? We'd like to try such client to see the real effect.

Thanks,

Heyi


On 2018/11/21 16:23, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>    Hi,
>
>> and can=E2=80=99t see cursor either with =E2=80=9Cvirtio-gpu=E2=80=9D.=
 Does that mean
>> virtio-gpu + VNC must rely on VNC client to draw the cursor image on
>> the screen?
> Yes.  virtio-gpu sends the cursor to the vnc client (via rich cursor
> extension) and expects the vnc client to show it.  So, if you ask your
> vnc client to not show the rich cursor the cursor is gone.  Solution:
> don't do that.
>
> stdvga has no hardware cursor support, so it is rendered to the
> framebuffer (by the guest).
>
> cirrus hardware cursor can't be mapped to rich cursor,
> so it is rendered to the framebuffer too (by qemu this time).
>
> cheers,
>    Gerd
>
>
>