Bug 641980 - mouse does not work in virt guests
Summary: mouse does not work in virt guests
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 636887
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qemu
Version: 14
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Justin M. Forbes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-10-11 17:17 UTC by John Poelstra
Modified: 2013-01-09 11:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-10-19 19:25:37 UTC
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Description John Poelstra 2010-10-11 17:17:20 UTC
Description of problem:
mouse does not work (move) in virt guests.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -qa | grep virt | sort
libvirt-0.8.3-2.fc14.x86_64
libvirt-client-0.8.3-2.fc14.x86_64
libvirt-python-0.8.3-2.fc14.x86_64
python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc14.noarch
python-virtkey-0.50-8.fc14.x86_64
virt-manager-0.8.5-1.fc14.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Tried with Fedora 14 guest and Ubuntu 10.10 guest


Steps to Reproduce:
1. run virt-manager
2. boot live media
3. mouse doesn't move

Comment 1 John Poelstra 2010-10-11 17:20:20 UTC
FWIW, keyboard does work.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2010-10-11 17:28:34 UTC
I think this is a qemu issue. Latest QEMU has broken non-tablet mouse according to Gerd's patch series upstream:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-10/msg00410.html

We should really make sure that series is applied for F14.

Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2010-10-11 17:34:10 UTC
Smells like a dup of bug 636887

Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2010-10-11 17:34:57 UTC
Checking the Xorg.0.log from the guest to see if it activated 'vmmouse' will confirm whether its the same issue.

Comment 5 John Poelstra 2010-10-11 18:31:49 UTC
After discussing more on #fedora-qa we determined this was a result of me NOT specifying the OS and Version in the virt-manager GUI.

I created a new guest by correctly specifying OS=Linux and Version=Fedora 14 and mouse works fine.

I created a new guest and specified OS=Linux and Version=Ubuntu 10.4 and ran Ubuntu 10.10 install and mouse does NOT work.

Removing F14Blocker.

Comment 6 Daniel Berrangé 2010-10-12 10:04:03 UTC
If you didn't select an OS type, then instead of getting a USB tablet, you would have got the default QEMU mouse which is PS/2 + vmmouse extensions. So I still reckon you were hitting the QEMU bug i mention. Xorg.0.log can confirm.

Comment 7 Justin M. Forbes 2010-10-19 19:25:37 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 636887 ***


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