Bug 1259205 - qemu with -vga qxl can't display the mouse pointer
Summary: qemu with -vga qxl can't display the mouse pointer
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qemu
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Fedora Virtualization Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-02 08:02 UTC by Peng Wu
Modified: 2017-03-24 17:51 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-03-24 17:51:29 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Peng Wu 2015-09-02 08:02:21 UTC
Description of problem:
When launch qemu-kvm from terminal with -vga qxl, the mouse pointer disappeared.
But with -vga vmware, the mouse appears okay.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-2.3.1-1.fc22

How reproducible:
Launch qemu-kvm by using the following command:
qemu-kvm -m 1024 -monitor stdio -vga qxl -net nic -net user Fedora22.qcow2


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 22/23 by using qemu-img and qemu-kvm;
2. Start Gnome Display Manager;

Actual results:
With full screen, the mouse disappears.

Expected results:
With full screen, the mouse appears.

Additional info:
With -vga vmware, the mouse works okay.

qemu-kvm -m 1024 -monitor stdio -vga vmware -net nic -net user Fedora22.qcow2

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2016-05-02 20:24:29 UTC
Sorry for the lack of response. Do you still see this on an f23+ host with f23+ VM?

Comment 2 Peng Wu 2016-05-03 06:15:21 UTC
I tried on F23 host with F23 VM, the bug still exists.

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2016-05-14 15:45:09 UTC
Thanks, I can reproduce. This seems to be related to relative mouse handling, using -usb tablet will 'fix' it and give better mouse interaction anyways.

rhel6 guest works as expected, so maybe this is a qxl or modesetting driver regression. -vga std is also affected

Comment 4 Cole Robinson 2017-03-24 17:51:29 UTC
With F25 qemu and F25 guest this doesn't seem to be an issue anymore, with that minimal command line. I think F25 guest + vmmouse is better coordinated now, since using vmport=off gives crappy behavior again (but vmmouse=on is the qemu default)


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