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

[Dead Horse]

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.

- DHC


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Dead Horse
<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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