Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:06:02AM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 17:48 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Secondly, I'm using a HVM WinXP installation and I appear to be
suffering badly from the misaligned mouse pointer problem as mentioned
in the virt-manager FAQ. Are there any updates from the Xen team as to
when this is likely to be fixed?
The next release of virt-manager will implement a workaround - when moving
the mouse cursor over the virtual console, we will grab the cursor and
lock it to be within the console window - we can then hide the local cursor
so you only see one. The trouble is to release the grab, you need a magic
key sequence, eg hold down 'Ctrl + Alt', but I think this will still be
better than the current situation which just sucks :-)
Further on, we plan to add support for turning on the USB graphics tablet
emulation for Windows based OS which ought to be give saner cursor movement
without need for the mouse grab.
Dan.
Another way around the problem, until we get a real fix, is to run a vnc
server on your guest and connect to it from dom0 in the usual way. The
mouse will work normally just as in any other regular vnc session.
Drawback is that this doesn't give you real "console" access...
--Hugh
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