Re: [Qemu-devel] multihead & multiseat in qemu

2014-03-24 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
> > > > Indeed. Patch sent to systemd-devel to get that fixed. > > Yes, what are the logistics of when QEMU could change without breaking things. There aren't any explicit rules. Also depends on the use case. We better should not change the default serial number for a number of years, to not

Re: [Qemu-devel] multihead & multiseat in qemu

2014-03-24 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Gerd Hoffmann (kra...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Mo, 2014-03-24 at 09:36 +, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > * Gerd Hoffmann (kra...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'd like to have some way to assign tags such as seat=foo or head=1 to > > > > > devices. Preferably in some way

Re: [Qemu-devel] multihead & multiseat in qemu

2014-03-24 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Mo, 2014-03-24 at 09:36 +, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Gerd Hoffmann (kra...@redhat.com) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to have some way to assign tags such as seat=foo or head=1 to > > > > devices. Preferably in some way which can easily picked up with udev > > > > rules, so

Re: [Qemu-devel] multihead & multiseat in qemu

2014-03-24 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Gerd Hoffmann (kra...@redhat.com) wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'd like to have some way to assign tags such as seat=foo or head=1 to > > > devices. Preferably in some way which can easily picked up with udev > > > rules, so it is easily usable by system-logind and Xorg server. > > > > Can't you jus

Re: [Qemu-devel] multihead & multiseat in qemu

2014-03-24 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > I'd like to have some way to assign tags such as seat=foo or head=1 to > > devices. Preferably in some way which can easily picked up with udev > > rules, so it is easily usable by system-logind and Xorg server. > > Can't you just do this in the serial number strings for both monitor E

Re: [Qemu-devel] multihead & multiseat in qemu

2014-03-24 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > I'd like to have some way to assign tags such as seat=foo or head=1 to > > devices. Preferably in some way which can easily picked up with udev > > rules, so it is easily usable by system-logind and Xorg server. > > The only current example of seat autoconfiguration is for the usb hubs

Re: [Qemu-devel] multihead & multiseat in qemu

2014-03-21 Thread Dave Airlie
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thinking about how to handle multihead and multiseat in qemu best. > > On multihead: Mouse in virtual machines works best with absolute > coordinates, and the way this is done today is to assign a (virtual) usb > tablet to the

Re: [Qemu-devel] multihead & multiseat in qemu

2014-03-21 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Gerd Hoffmann (kra...@redhat.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thinking about how to handle multihead and multiseat in qemu best. > > On multihead: Mouse in virtual machines works best with absolute > coordinates, and the way this is done today is to assign a (virtual) usb > tablet to the guest. Wi

[Qemu-devel] multihead & multiseat in qemu

2014-03-21 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, I'm thinking about how to handle multihead and multiseat in qemu best. On multihead: Mouse in virtual machines works best with absolute coordinates, and the way this is done today is to assign a (virtual) usb tablet to the guest. With multihead this becomes a bit difficuilt. Today we try