Just digging through my morning mail pile, disregard my previous note on tablet support enablement by ovirt/rhev. Seeing this I'll dig into it and get back to you with results. - Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Itamar Heim [mailto:ih...@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:45 AM To: Hans de Goede Cc: Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare); André Felício; spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; us...@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [Users] oVirt console plans On 01/31/2012 09:40 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/31/2012 06:38 AM, Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote: >> I did some more extensive testing tonight to see how many guests >> would have issues with a SPICE based console. This testing was >> specifically during guest OS install time. >> >> Here is the list and the results >> - Red Hat 7.3 --> Mouse unusable >> - Red Hat 9 --> Mouse unusable >> - Fedora core 1 - 14 --> Mouse unusable > > These are all past there EOL, also see my remark below which certainly > applies to these. > >> - Fedora core 15 Mouse useable >> - Fedora core 16 Mouse useable >> - Red Hat Enterprise 3.x --> Mouse unusable >> - Red Hat Enterprise 4.x --> Mouse unusable >> - Red Hat Enterprise 5.x --> Mouse unusable >> - Red Hat Enterpise 6.x --> Mouse useable >> - SLES 10 --> Mouse unusable >> - SLES 11 --> Mouse unusable >> - SLES 11 SP1 --> Mouse unusable >> - OpenSUSE 11.1 --> Mouse unusable >> - OpenSUSE 11.2 --> Mouse useable >> - OpenSUSE 11.3 --> Mouse useable >> - OpenSUSE 11.4 --> Mouse useable > > Looking at the above list it sounds to me like you had the usb-tablet > enabled in the vm config, that is not a good idea for Linux versions > which have an xorg which does not support device hotplug. May I > suggest that you re-run the tests without the usb-tablet enabled? engine code has this: if (mVm.getdisplay_type() == DisplayType.vnc) { mCreateInfo.add(VdsProperties.TabletEnable, "true"); } since these was with spice, I'd assume answer would be "no". but would appreciate validation from Chris at qemu command line level. > > This may also help with the problems with other operating systems. > > Regards, > > Hans _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
