Hi, On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:41 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > I don't recall the specific improvments the driver provides to > vmware, but I do remember that they claim it greatly improves mouse > support when used under vmware over the "mouse" driver. Both > the 'vmware' video driver and 'vmmouse' have also been available > for quite some time from VMware Inc. in their vmtools package > aparently. They contributed the code to X.Org ages ago, as they > wanted their platforms to have out of the box OS support on par > with any other non-virtual setup. If we can reuse this stuff under > Xen or other technologies, that would be great. Doesn't look like it's immediately useful to Xen --- it provides a client, but no server, and the protocol it uses isn't a standard one that's provided by the Xen device model. --Stephen
