Bug 1030531

Summary: Mouse pointer disappears after changing guest resolution
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Milan Barta <mbarta>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-qxlAssignee: Marc-Andre Lureau <marcandre.lureau>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.0CC: cfergeau, codong, dblechte, james.faulkner, juzhou, marcandre.lureau, mkrcmari, mzhan, rbalakri, tjamrisk, tpelka, tzheng, vbenes, vehrlich
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.1-10.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1116870 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-03-05 13:33:06 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Milan Barta 2013-11-14 16:08:32 UTC 
Description of problem:
After changing screen resolution of the guest by resizing the remote-viewer window (arbitrary resolution change feature), the mouse pointer in the guest becomes invisible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Guest: RHEL7
spice-vdagent-0.14.0-5.el7.x86_64

Host & Client: RHEL7
spice-server-0.12.4-3.el7.x86_64
spice-gtk3-0.20-6.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-19.el7.x86_64
libvirt-client-1.1.1-12.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100 % times

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run RHEL7 VM with spice-vdagent service running
2. resize the remote-viewer window

Actual results:
Guest screen resolution changes and the mouse pointer becomes invisible.

Expected results:
The resolution changes and the mouse pointer stays visible as before.

Additional info:
Restarting the spice-vdagent service helps.
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2014-03-22 06:31:56 UTC 
This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 2 Marc-Andre Lureau 2014-07-02 10:24:03 UTC 
POSTED:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2014-July/017031.html
Comment 3 Vladimir Benes 2014-08-19 08:17:10 UTC 
*** Bug 1064773 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 13:33:06 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0578.html