Re: mouse pointer problems driving me bonkers

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

I think, I made the implicit assumption that you use Xen 3.3.
The qemu-dm code differs between Xen 3.1.x and Xen 3.3 in that
that Xen 3.3 is based on Qemu 0.9.0 code.

Christoph

Michael Litchard wrote:
> my windows hvm works great, as well as my netbsd dom0. Right now my
> workaround is
> to use putty from my windows hvm. I'm trying to remove as many
> processes from dom0 as possible. So, if the previous statement about
> usb support isn't true, what should be the next step?
> 
> Michael Litchard
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Manuel Bouyer 
> <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:35:59AM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
>>>> #Xen emulates a PS/2 mouse, but the pointer in the guest has difficulties
>>>> # tracking the absolute position. Xen can emulate a USB tablet in addition
>>>> # to the mouse which will report the absolute position of the pointer,
>>>> # and make the mouse much easier to use.
>>>> #
>>>> usb=1
>>>> usbdevice='tablet'
>>>> #usbdevice='mouse'
>>> The comment here exactly describes the problem you're observing. The
>>> config setting is correct, but unfortunately the USB settings have no
>>> effect on non-Linux systems. The qemu USB support is Linux-only.
>> that's not true, at last for Xen 3.1.x. usbdevice='tablet' makes a huge
>> difference for me with windows HVM guests, and a NetBSD dom0.