Re: [Qemu-devel] HEAD qemu mouse stuck in bottom corner problem

[Piotras <piotras@gmail.com>]

AFAIK the described behaviour is a consequence of a bug in SDL library.

You may try to set environment variable as a workaround:
> export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0
> qemu ...


Hope this helps,

Piotr


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Shaddy Baddah
<shaddy.baddah@shaddybaddah.name> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've built qemu from HEAD (as of yesterday) svn on my Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
> x86 release. Here is the uname -a output:
>
> Linux <edited>-ubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> The problem I have with it is that for both Windows and Linux (a Knoppix
> boot session) guest system, once I click into the qemu window to grab the
> mouse, it is jumping to the bottom right most corner of the screen, and
> remaining stuck there. There seems no way to recover the mouse, so I have to
> hold ctrl-alt and get out of there.
>
> I get around the problem sometimes by using vnc (-vnc :1) for the qemu
> display instead, but I don't know if this is also a known issue/limitation
> (I assumed so), that only gets you so far because the guest mouse does not
> track the host mouse at all accurately. So for the Windows guest, I get
> around the problem by waiting until the TCP stack is up, and connecting to
> the actually hosted VNC service (not qemu's in-built service that I
> activated).
>
> I'd rather not do something so convoluted, so any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Shaddy
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