Bug 216030

Summary:	Two different cursors were shown in the console of VM in virt-manager
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	daniel.ottey, kzak, lawrence.newitt, ppavliks, srevivo, tao, xen-maint
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Bug Depends On:	211618, 212949
Bug Blocks:	222399

Description Jay Turner 2006-11-16 20:42:54 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #212949 +++

Description of problem:
Two different cursors were shown in the console of VM in virt-manager.
It is very difficult to operate with the two cursors.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC6 GA was used. 
virt-manager-0.2.3-2.fc6

How reproducible:
It can be reprodced while installing a VM every time 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Operate a VM with graphic mode console in virt-manager.
2. Two cursors will be shown in the console every time.

  
Actual results:
Two different cursors were shown up.

Expected results:
Just one cursor is expected.


Additional info:
None.

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2006-11-16 20:48:57 UTC

I'm seeing this with virt-manager-0.2.5-1.el5.x86_64 as well.

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2006-11-22 14:53:14 UTC

*** Bug 216877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2006-11-22 15:05:03 UTC

One cursor is drawn by the guest X server, the other by the local X server under
which virt-manager is running. There is no direct connection between the VNC
server in Dom0, and the X server in DomU - they merely both access a shared
chunk of memory representing the framebuffer. Because of the way the mouse
pointer updates are sent, the 2 cursors get out of sync with each other very
easily. Since they do not correspond it is important to be able to see both
otherwise you will get very wierd user experiance. Work is ongoing to fix the
mouse pointer co-ordinate updates such that the 2 cursors are completely in
sync. Once they are in sync it will be feasible to hide the locally drawn cursor
completely.

Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2006-11-29 19:42:21 UTC

Adding bug 211618 as a dependancy, because until the xen kernel side is fixed,
there's nothing useful we can do in virt-manager.

Comment 5 Daniel Berrangé 2007-01-17 15:13:41 UTC

*** Bug 222971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Daniel Berrangé 2007-06-14 19:55:43 UTC

This was previously resolved as a Day-0 errata  virt-manager-0.2.6-7.0.2.el5


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 223805 ***