[Spice-devel] keyboard and Mouse Fails....

Alon Levy alevy at redhat.com
Thu Dec 29 00:18:16 PST 2011


On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:02:07PM -0800, Naga Mohan Pothula wrote:
>    Hi Alon,
>    Please refer my inline comments.
>    Thanks/Mohan.

Thanks Mohan,

 Arnon - looks like a windows agent issue.

 Mohan - if you can configure your email client to add prefixes it would
 make it easier to distinguish your reply from my question, thanks.

Alon

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>    From: Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com>
>    To: Naga Mohan Pothula <nagamohan.pothula at yahoo.com>
>    Cc: David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com>; "spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org"
>    <spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>; Christophe Fergeau
>    <cfergeau at redhat.com>
>    Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:54 AM
>    Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] keyboard and Mouse Fails....
>    On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:04:28PM -0800, Naga Mohan Pothula wrote:
>    >    Can anyone please respond on this?
>    >    Thanks/Mohan.
>    >
>    >   
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>    >
>    >    From: Naga Mohan Pothula <[1]nagamohan.pothula at yahoo.com>
>    >    To: David Jaša <[2]djasa at redhat.com>
>    >    Cc: "[3]spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org"
>    >    <[4]spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>; Christophe Fergeau
>    >    <[5]cfergeau at redhat.com>
>    >    Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:13 PM
>    >    Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] keyboard and Mouse Fails....
>    >    Hi,
>    >    I'm facing severe below issues when connecting Windows guests from
>    Linux
>    >    clients with Full-screen+Auto-Config only 
>    >        1.)    Keyboard/mouse lock issue happens when session is
>    connected
>    >    from guestגs shutdown/restart state. 
> 
>    Are you running an agent in the guest? does this happen when not running
>    an agent in the guest?
>    Agent is running in the guest. These two Issues do not happen when Agent
>    is not running in the guest. 
>    >        2.)    Black screen appears when session is reconnected from
>    guestגs
>    >    disconnected state.
>    What does this mean? what's disconnected state? no client connected? so
>    you connect from a linux client to a windows guest and you get a black
>    screen? 
>    It means Spice client is not connected to guest. 
>    we don't see this issue if we specify "./spicec -h <ip addr> -p 5924"
>    we see it only when we specify "./spicec -h <ip addr> -p 5924
>    --full-screen=auto-conf"
>    if that is the case can you give more details on the guest and
>    client, version of client, version of driver in guest, agent existance
>    and if so version.
>    Guest:
>            Windows 7 32/64 bit 
>             QXL driver: built the code taken from spice git repository
>    (v1.4.1.1)
>             VDAgent: built the code taken from spice git
>    repository(v1.1.0.1009)
>    Client:
>         Spice Client: v0.10.0
>         Client machine: Fedora14 Live image loaded into RAM.
> 
>    >    This issue would not be reproducible all the time from Linux Desktops
>    but
>    >    can be reproducible consistently if we load Fedora14 Live Image into
>    RAM
>    >    and launch Spice connection.
>    >    Thanks,
>    >    Naga.
> 
>    I don't understand the last part - you only get those two issues when
>    running a client from a fedora 14 live image? or is fedora14 related
>    to the guest, in which case it contradicts the guest being windows?
>    Yes. These two issues happen when Spice client running from Fedora 14 Live
>    image connecting to Windows 7 guest.
>    Steps to reproduce:
>    1.)Fedora14 Live image is loaded into RAM thru "live_ram" option for
>    booting. we may not see these issues if we don't load into RAM.
>    2.)Spice session is launched with Full-Screen+Auto-config only.
>       ./spicec -h <ip addr> -p 5924 --full-screen=auto-conf         (we see
>    issues)
>       ./spicec -h <ip addr> -p 5924                                          
>      (we don't see issues)
>    >
>    >   
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>    >
>    >    From: David Jaša <[6]djasa at redhat.com>
>    >    To: Naga Mohan Pothula <[7]nagamohan.pothula at yahoo.com>
>    >    Cc: Christophe Fergeau <[8]cfergeau at redhat.com>;
>    >    "[9]spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org"
>    <[10]spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
>    >    Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:50 AM
>    >    Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] keyboard and Mouse Fails....
>    >    Naga Mohan Pothula píše v Po 19. 12. 2011 v 10:13 -0800:
>    >    > We can move mouse over the guest but the guest doesn't respond for
>    >    > user actions like mouse click.
>    >
>    >    I've seen something similar that was caused by agent. Keyboard worked
>    >    fine so I used it to restart agent service and everything started
>    >    working normally. I was not able to make clear reproducer for this
>    >    however, so if you have a reliable step-by-step one, it would be
>    great
>    >
>    >    David
>    >    >
>    >    > In the same way for keyboard actions. Client machine needs to get
>    >    > restarted or close Xwindows to reconnect guest.
>    >    > This issue happens only when we connect windows guest in fullscreen
>    >    > mode with auto-conf from linux client(but not from windows client).
>    >    > It doesn't happen if we connect guest in windowed mode.
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    >    > Thanks/Mohan.
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    ______________________________________________________________________
>    >    > From: Christophe Fergeau <[1][11]cfergeau at redhat.com>
>    >    > To: Naga Mohan Pothula <[2][12]nagamohan.pothula at yahoo.com>
>    >    > Cc: "[3][13]spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org"
>    >    > <[4][14]spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
>    >    > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 3:20 AM
>    >    > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] keyboard and Mouse Fails....
>    >    >
>    >    > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:32:47AM -0800, Naga Mohan Pothula wrote:
>    >    > > Hi,
>    >    > >
>    >    > > Keyboard and Mouse failure happens when windows guests are
>    connected
>    >    > from linux client.
>    >    >
>    >    > What do you mean exactly by keyboard and mouse failures? You can't
>    >    > type
>    >    > anything nor move the mouse? Or do you observe a different kind of
>    >    > failure?
>    >    >
>    >    > Christophe
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    >    >
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