[Spice-devel] [Users] oVirt console plans

[Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)]

Just digging through my morning mail pile, disregard my previous note on tablet support enablement by ovirt/rhev.
Seeing this I'll dig into it and get back to you with results.
- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Itamar Heim [mailto:iheim at redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:45 AM
To: Hans de Goede
Cc: Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare); André Felício; spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; users at ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [Users] oVirt console plans

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