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Description of problem: I use virt-manager to manage and run a windows-xp guest using KVM hypervisor. Its a pretty common setup with both relative and absolute movement pointing devices. When SPICE display output is used mouse pointer works perfectly. Due to the whole guest is beeing very unstable (thinking of another bug-report concerning this) I wanted to switch display output to VNC just to rule out SPICE as the culprit. With VNC my mouse pointer does not show up within the guest while it seems to be there as objects (windows xp icons and taskbar) react to mouse movement. Also tried this launching a Linux-LiveCD - same result! My PC uses a NVIDIA 8800GT card with proprietary drivers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Yes - using virt-manager Steps to Reproduce: 1. use virt-manager to setup a guest with graphical output (e.g. use LiveCD to boot from) 2. boot guest with SPICE output and verify mouse is ok 3. switch output to VNC and verify mouse is NOT ok Actual results: invisible mouse pointer Expected results: visible mouse pointer Additional info:
Same Behavior, the reason to switch from spice to vnc, is because in spice im not able to use my second monitor in full screen mode, with vnc im able to use my second monitor as full screen, but mouse is not visible at all, i also tried vncviewer localhost:5900 -fullscreen and im able to se a little square as a pointer inside the guest, but the screen splits into my 2 monitors, (half of the screen in one monitor , half in the other one) make in it even harder to work with.
Strange, can anyone reproduce with virt-manager from updates-testing? As well as latest If so, please provide: sudo virsh dumpxml $vmname OS installed in the VM (if winxp, specifically what version) Does the issue reproduce with - sudo virt-viewer $vmname - vncviewer localhost:5900 port 5900 will only be valid if that's the only VM running
Actually I can reproduce. Problem seems to be a combination of VNC and QXL, mouse works as mentioned by other reporters, it just isn't appearing on screen. Guest is fully updated f16 gnome. I don't know if this is qxl, qemu, spice or vnc, but reassigning to qxl for further triage.
I experience this same problem with RHEL 5.8.
Sorry, that's a RHEL 5.8 guest.
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Pretty sure this was fixed, if anyone can still reproduce against F18 please reopen.