The vmmouse driver is used to have a "transparent" mouse between the virtual machine and the desktop. ie: no need to press ctrl-alt to release the mouse.
vmmouse worked automatically in jaunty, but was broken in Karmic. The patch in 1:12.6.5-2ubuntu3 makes it get detected in Lucid again, and enabled automatically. Yes, the vmmouse driver is more CPU intensive than the regular mouse emulation. Moving the mouse around rapidly in circles in a Lucid VM on my machine results in 20-30% cpu usage. Under normal mouse usage, it doesn't use that much. How much CPU usage are you experiencing? -- [lucid kvm-qemu]High cpu usage when moving mouse https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
