[Users] [Spice-devel] oVirt console plans

Fri Feb 3 06:21:33 UTC 2012

Hi,

On 02/02/2012 09:58 PM, Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote:
> Hans,
> Here are the results of testing I did with and without usbtablet. No usbtablet assumes spice defaults EG: PS2 mouse
>
> BTW for now I am using a VDSM hook script to enable usbtablet and workaround the issues. (TY Andy C.)
>

Thanks for this list, it is good to hear that the VDSM hook script helps
as a workaround for you. But I would like to fix this so that things work
without such a workaround. My first guess is that the relative mouse mode
not working is a client issue, hence I was wondering if you could give
some more info about the client machines you're using. And if you're
willing to run some tests with a different client version. If you want
I can do some scratchbuilds for you of the latest client versions
so that you will have RPM's to install (for the Linux clients only).

I have the following questions about the client(s) which you're using:
* Are you using the windows or linux version of spicec /spicy for your testing?
* Which versions? (output rpm -q spice-gtk spice-client would help)
* Can you try building&  installing the latest spice (0.10.1) and/or spice-gtk
    (0.9) on a Linux client machine and try the spicec / spicy from that and see
     if that makes a difference? I just tried a RHEL-5 vm on a RHEL-6.2 host
     without the agent and the mouse works fine.

Note I've already tried to reproduce your issue with a RHEL-6 qemu host
and spicec-0.10.1 and spicy-0.9 Linux clients and the relative mouse mode
was working fine with either client.

Thanks & Regards,

Hans

> Spice defaults:
> - Red Hat 7.3 -->   Mouse unusable
> - Red Hat 9 -->   Mouse unusable
> - Fedora core 1 - 14 -->   Mouse unusable
> - Fedora core 15 Mouse useable
> - Fedora core 16 Mouse useable
> - Red Hat Enterprise 3.x -->   Mouse unusable
> - Red Hat Enterprise 4.x -->   Mouse unusable
> - Red Hat Enterprise 5.x -->   Mouse unusable
> - Red Hat Enterpise 6.x -->   Mouse useable
> - SLES 10 -->   Mouse unusable
> - SLES 11 -->   Mouse unusable
> - SLES 11 SP1 -->   Mouse unusable
> - OpenSUSE 11.1 -->   Mouse unusable
> - OpenSUSE 11.2 -->   Mouse useable
> - OpenSUSE 11.3 -->   Mouse useable
> - OpenSUSE 11.4 -->   Mouse useable
> - Windows 2000 SP4 -->   Mouse unusable
> - Windows XP -->   Mouse unusable
> - Windows Vista -->   Mouse unusable
> - Windows Server 2003 -->   Mouse unusable
> - Windows Server 2003 R2 -->   Mouse unusable
> - Windows Server 2008 -->   Mouse unusable
> - Windows Server 2008 R2 -->   Mouse unusable
> - Solaris 10 Update9  -->   Mouse unusable
> - Solaris 11 Express -->   Mouse unusable
> - Solaris 11 -->   Mouse unusable
>
> Spice + usbtablet results:
> - Red Hat 7.3 -->   Mouse useable
> - Red Hat 9 -->   Mouse useable
> - Fedora core 1 - 14 -->   Mouse useable
> - Fedora core 15 Mouse useable
> - Fedora core 16 Mouse useable
> - Red Hat Enterprise 3.x -->   Mouse useable
> - Red Hat Enterprise 4.x -->   Mouse useable
> - Red Hat Enterprise 5.x -->   Mouse useable
> - Red Hat Enterpise 6.x -->   Mouse useable
> - SLES 10 -->   Mouse useable
> - SLES 11 -->   Mouse useable
> - SLES 11 SP1 -->   Mouse useable
> - OpenSUSE 11.1 -->   Mouse useable
> - OpenSUSE 11.2 -->   Mouse useable
> - OpenSUSE 11.3 -->   Mouse useable
> - OpenSUSE 11.4 -->   Mouse useable
> - Windows 2000 SP4 -->   Mouse useable
> - Windows XP -->   Mouse useable
> - Windows Vista -->   Mouse useable
> - Windows Server 2003 -->   Mouse useable
> - Windows Server 2003 R2 -->   Mouse useable
> - Windows Server 2008 -->   Mouse useable
> - Windows Server 2008 R2 -->   Mouse useable
> - Solaris 10 Update9  -->   Mouse unusable (still does not work w/solaris)
> - Solaris 11 Express -->   Mouse unusable (still does not work w/solaris)
> - Solaris 11 -->   Mouse unusable (still does not work w/solaris)
>
> regards,
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans de Goede [mailto:hdegoede at redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:04 PM
> To: Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)
> Cc: Itamar Heim; André Felício; spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [Users] oVirt console plans
>
> Hi,
>
> On 02/01/2012 06:04 PM, Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote:
>> Not a problem I am happy to help in any way that I can.
>> To Clarify I executed the same tests with the same results using both RHEV and ovirt.
>> I am using:
>> RHEV 3.0.1
>> oVirt (FC16 + oVirt Nightly builds)
>>
>> Node wise I use EL6 in my case Scientific Linux 6.x.
>>
>> The behavior I observe with the mouse in windows or legacy linux guests for example with a spice console is:
>> - Erratic mouse movements - mouse jumps all over the spice console
>> randomly
>> - Mouse stuck to console border - the mouse simply sticks to the top of the console (EG: first row of pixels) and moves left to right there only.
>> - No left or right mouse input seems to be recognized in either of the
>> above cases
>>
>> The spice console used in both the case of RHEV or ovirt:
>> -->
>> -->  http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHEV/
>> -->  SRPMS/rhevm-spice-client-3.0-21.el6.src.rpm
>> For ovirt I rebuild the above rpm and extract the msi and cabs then
>> place them into the appropriate (/usr/share/rhevm/rhevm.ear/...)
>> locations
>
> Ok, so you're testing the console under Windows clients? Otherwise this is not all that relevant, and it would be good to know which Linux version you are using for the tests.
>
>> When testing outside of ovirt I have used both spiec and spicey to connect to the guest console:
>
> Ok, some more questions:
> * Are you using the windows or linux version of spicec /spicy for your testing?
> * Which versions? (output rpm -q spice-gtk spice-client would help)
> * Can you try building&  installing the latest spice (0.10.1) and/or spice-gtk
>     (0.9) on a Linux client machine and try the spicec / spicy from that and see
>     if that makes a difference? I just tried a RHEL-5 vm on a RHEL-6.2 host
>     without the agent and the mouse works fine.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans