[Users] [Spice-devel] oVirt console plans

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/31/2012 09:40 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 01/31/2012 06:38 AM, Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote:
>> I did some more extensive testing tonight to see how many guests would
>> have issues with a SPICE based console. This testing was specifically
>> during guest OS install time.
>>
>> Here is the list and the results
>> - Red Hat 7.3 --> Mouse unusable
>> - Red Hat 9 --> Mouse unusable
>> - Fedora core 1 - 14 --> Mouse unusable
>
> These are all past there EOL, also see my
> remark below which certainly applies to these.
>
>> - 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
>
> Looking at the above list it sounds to me
> like you had the usb-tablet enabled in the vm
> config, that is not a good idea for Linux versions
> which have an xorg which does not support
> device hotplug. May I suggest that you re-run
> the tests without the usb-tablet enabled?

engine code has this:

if (mVm.getdisplay_type() == DisplayType.vnc) {
    mCreateInfo.add(VdsProperties.TabletEnable, "true");
}

since these was with spice, I'd assume answer would be "no".
but would appreciate validation from Chris at qemu command line level.

>
> This may also help with the problems with other
> operating systems.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans