On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 04:23:56PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:52:27PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 04:01:46PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> >> I don't think the inconsistency is significant enough and is not > >> >> actually introduced by these patches themselves. Libosinfo is just > >> >> saying "these devices are supported by the OS" with these patches and > >> >> if Boxes or qemu (or other apps) add a slightly different device based > >> >> on this information, that is not a fault of libosinfo. > >> > > >> > Yes, this would be Boxes/qemu faults for not following what libosinfo > >> > told it to and adding a USB mouse when libosinfo never told it this > >> > specific mouse was supported. In this patch what you really are trying > >> > to say is that it's able to support any USB mouse, not the VMWare one. > >> > >> Huh? How so? Your last sentence is contradicting the previous one. > > > > This patch is adding a specific device definition (QEMU supports a > > specific USB mouse provided by VMWare). > > What you need/really want in this series is a way to say "QEMU supports > > HID devices whose protocol is "Mouse" " > > Sure, how do I do that? New <device-class> node? > I already suggested that I can instead add the > exact devices qemu uses even if they are not properly registered. If I > had an easy way to find out if there really is any signficant enough > difference between these two different set of devices, it would have > made things easy but I failed to find any documentation that could > clarify this. > It turns out the usb tablet which is already in qemu-usb.xml is already some random device compared to what QEMU exposes in the guest. > Not about my interest, but for reasons I mentioned in my previous > mail, mainly lack of time. The next issue here is that saying that Windows XP does not support USB mouses/keyboard is incorrect. The magic knowledge encoding that XP automatic installation should not use USB keyboard/mouse would make more sense in libvirt-designer/libvirt-builder (or Boxes in the mean time). Christophe
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