xen discuss - Feb 2008 - Mouse problems running windows xp as a virtual console in opensolaris B81

Hi all,


The mouse is not really useful in the virtual machine.
The actual mouse is like miles away and in order to click on the buttons it is
very frustrating to push the buttons.
Does anybody have a solution for this.

thanks in advance
Filip
 
 
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quote: "Mouse tracking will improve once Windows is booted and installs its
driver for qemu''s emulated graphics tablet-style mouse."

from: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/windows.guest.html

maybe: this helps?
 
 
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Hi Filip,

You need to make sure that xen is instructed to emulate a usb tablet mouse. 
In python it looks like this:

usb=1
usbdevice="tablet"

- Russ


Filip Francis wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> The mouse is not really useful in the virtual machine.
> The actual mouse is like miles away and in order to click on the buttons it
is very frustrating to push the buttons.
> Does anybody have a solution for this.
> 
> thanks in advance
> Filip
>  
>  
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Hi,


Sorry for the late reaction.
But now the 1 million dollar question is how do i get this in to the windows
domain.
I created already a dump into a xml file 
but where and how do i put the usb in there is there somewhere a syntax that i
can follow.

thanks in advance
Filip
 
 
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Hi Russ,

If you specify what changes we need to make to the XML produced by virsh it
would really make my week (or month!). I´ve tried to find the XML format used
my libvirt (which if I understand correctly is what actually calls xen) but to
no avail.

Many Thanks in Advance,

Nick
> Hi Filip,
> 
> You need to make sure that xen is instructed to
> emulate a usb tablet mouse. 
> In python it looks like this:
> 
> usb=1
> usbdevice="tablet"
> 
> - Russ
> 
> 
> Filip Francis wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 
> > The mouse is not really useful in the virtual
> machine.
> > The actual mouse is like miles away and in order to
> click on the buttons it is very frustrating to push
> the buttons.
> > Does anybody have a solution for this.
> > 
> > thanks in advance
> > Filip
> >  
> >  
> > This message posted from opensolaris.org
> > _______________________________________________
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> > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
> 
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> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Russ Blaine | Solaris Kernel | russell.blaine@sun.com
> _______________________________________________
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> xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
 
 
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http://libvirt.org/format.html

''virsh'' will also convert Python configs to and from XML,
though I
forget the details.

Evan

Thanks Evan,

I´ve already checked out the *documented* XML format for libvirt.
Unfortunately it seems to be rather behind the times. Digging
into the mailing lists had given some idea what it *could* would.

For Example :

   <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
 
    <...>

    <input bus='usb' type='tablet'/>
  </devices>

However this doesn´t work for me...

Regards & Thanks

Nick
> http://libvirt.org/format.html
> 
> 'virsh' will also convert Python configs to and from
> XML, though I 
> forget the details.
> 
> Evan
 
 
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What I wanted to quote was the following :

  <devices>
   <emulator>/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
   <...>
   <input bus=''usb''
type=''tablet''/>
  </devices>

Regards,

Nick
 
 
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Nick Smith wrote:
>
> However this doesn´t work for me...
can''t really help, I''m afraid. I''ve attached my WXP
config which does
use USB, and this works fine, but on a Fedora8 Dom0. You could try 
running this up in virsh and dumping out the auto-generated XML config, 
which will at least give you the correct syntax.

I''ve given up on virsh in Fedora; too many problems.

-Evan

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:24:42AM -0800, Nick Smith wrote:
> I??ve already checked out the *documented* XML format for libvirt.
> Unfortunately it seems to be rather behind the times. Digging
> into the mailing lists had given some idea what it *could* would.
> 
> For Example :
> 
>    <devices>
>     <emulator>/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
>  
>     <...>
> 
>     <input bus=''usb''
type=''tablet''/>
>   </devices>
> 
> However this doesn??t work for me...
This would work but the current version of libvirt we ship doesn''t
understand it (we''re working on integrating a version that does[1]).

You''ll have to do:

xm list -l domname >domname.xm
edit domname.xm
xm new -F domname.xm

regards
john

[1] and soon we will have a version of virt-install that automatically
sets tablet mode for OS''s that can handle it such as Windows XP or
Solaris 10