Re: [vfio-users] VM loses mouse

2017-04-25 Thread Christopher Thompson
yum install synergy too. Cheers, Chris > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Thompson [mailto:chri...@synopsys.com] > Sent: 25 April 2017 13:10 > To: Patrick O'Callaghan ; Christopher Thompson > ; Daimon Wang > ; vfio-users@redhat.com > Subject: RE: [vfio-users] V

Re: [vfio-users] VM loses mouse

2017-04-25 Thread Christopher Thompson
-Original Message- > From: Patrick O'Callaghan [mailto:p...@usb.ve] > Sent: 25 April 2017 13:06 > To: Christopher Thompson ; Daimon > Wang ; vfio-users@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [vfio-users] VM loses mouse > > On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 11:45 +, Christopher Thompson wrot

Re: [vfio-users] VM loses mouse

2017-04-25 Thread Christopher Thompson
This sounds like the PS/2 driver/emulated hardware controller gets itself in knots. PS/2 isn't hot plug, so if something goes wrong it's generally stuffed until a reboot, which sounds like your issue. One common option is to use Synergy, which passes the keyboard and mouse over the network, you

Re: [vfio-users] vfio dma map succeeds but dmesg indicates error

2017-03-31 Thread Christopher Thompson
ny more. Thanks and regards, Chris > -Original Message- > From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.william...@redhat.com] > Sent: 30 March 2017 17:18 > To: Christopher Thompson > Cc: vfio-users@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [vfio-users] vfio dma map succeeds but dmesg in

[vfio-users] vfio dma map succeeds but dmesg indicates error

2017-03-30 Thread Christopher Thompson
Hi, I'm currently using VFIO for PCI passthrough in a custom simulation, and have discovered that when I try to map IO virtual addresses larger than my host supports, VFIO happily returns 0 from the dma map ioctl, but dmesg is telling me something is wrong. I noticed this after a few days of w