[Users] Feature request: allow usbtablet and vram config via UI

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/27/2013 05:23 PM, Dead Horse wrote:
> Any thoughts/feedback on this one? It really is a downer to be forced to
> manipulate both of these via hooks. These are both pretty standard
> configuration items to enhance/tweak or make various guests fully
> functional.

will track via the bugs. the vram for spice multi monitor i see the 
issue with.
for usb tablet, don't we always enable it for vnc display?

>
> - DHC
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Dead Horse
> <deadhorseconsulting at gmail.com <mailto:deadhorseconsulting at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     Allow for a usbtablet input device to be enabled and used. Perhaps
>     via the console configuration UI for a VM in the admin and user portals.
>     -Highly useful in the event that a guest OS does not have the spice
>     agent loaded nor is it available for said guest OS.
>     -Also in the case of guest OS that simply does not want to work and
>     play well with <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'>
>     - All Operating systems since ~1998 understand <input type='tablet'
>     bus='usb'/> and will deal with mouse events in absolute mode.
>
>     Allow for vram and vram_ size to be configurable for CIrrus(VNC) and
>     QXL(Spice) console types. Again probably best suited to have this on
>     console configuration UI for a VM in the admin and user portals.
>     - Default VRAM sizes are not enough to allow for larger resolutions
>     and pixel depths at times.
>     - Especially the case in multiple monitor SPICE, fullscreen, or VNC
>     consoles
>
>     - More VRAM is useful in the case of attempting to run accelerated
>     applications within a QXL configured guest.
>
>     The above can be altered via VDSM hooks however this is rather
>     painful. Additionally these options or similar are configurable in
>     other competing solutions.
>
>     - DHC
>
>
>
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