[Spice-devel] Mouse disappears in multi monitor setup / spice-vdagent issues

[Matteo Cerutti]

Dear All,

I have recently become very interested in SPICE and decided to give it a try and see if it could replace the NX solution that I have in place.

I have installed Fedora 16 KVM host, where I also upgraded the default spice, kvm, qemu, virt-manager etc. packages to the latest available at ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/fedora/linux//updates/16/x86_64.

I then virtualized a Fedora 16 guest where I am not running any spice-vdagent at the moment. However, I upgraded xorg-x11-server-Xorg, xorg-x11-server-comon, xorg-x11-server-Xephyr and xorg-x11-drv-qxl to the latest packages available at the link above on the virtualized guest.

Through virt-manager, I set up the virtual machine with two QXL devices in order to get the dual head display to work.

In the virtual guest, I then set up Xinerama via /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows:
	Section "ServerFlags"
		Option	"Xinerama"	"true"
	EndSection
        Section "Device"
                Identifier      "QXL0"
                Driver  "qxl"
		BusID	"PCI:0:2:0"
		Screen	0
        EndSection
        Section "Device"
                Identifier      "QXL1"
                Driver  "qxl"
		BusID	"PCI:0:8:0"
		Screen	1
        EndSection
	Section "Monitor"
		Identifier "Monitor0"
	EndSection
	Section "Monitor"
		Identifier "Monitor1"
	EndSection
	Section "Screen"
		Identifier "screen0"
		DefaultDepth 24
		SubSection "Display"
			Depth 24
			Modes "1024x768"
		EndSubSection
		Device "QXL0"
		Monitor "Monitor0"
	EndSection
	Section "Screen"
		Identifier "screen1"
		Device "QXL1"
		DefaultDepth 24
		SubSection "Display"
			Depth 24
			Modes "1024x768"
		EndSubSection
		Monitor "Monitor1"
	EndSection
        Section "ServerLayout"
                Identifier      "Default Layout"
                Screen	0	"screen0"
		Screen	1	"screen1" RightOf "screen0"
		Option "Xinerama" "true"
        EndSection


I then tried to connect via spicec and I successfully got two windows. First results are pretty good. The primary behaves as primary and so does the secondary, excellent. Also, it appears that the screen1 is correctly set to be to the right of screen0.

The problem comes in when I try to move the cursor on the secondary screen. As soon as I do that the mouse disappears. If I move it out of the secondary window, it shows up again.. also when I move it back to the primary window. Additionally, if I open an application on the primary window and then try to move it to the secondary one, the secondary suddenly becomes usable (cursor becomes visible) and the primary becomes unusable and behaves like the secondary used to do at the beginning.

This also happens when running spicec in full screen mode.

As my first objective was to get a proper dual head working I did not install the spice-vdagentd on the guest machine intentionally. However, since I could not pin down where the problem lied, I went ahead installing spice-vdagent 0.10.1 on the guest machine.

After doing that, things started to get even worse. For example, when I open the Gnome menu and try to select some voices, I am no longer able to open anything as the mouse click appears to be broken. Also, voices don't get highlighted when I hover over them with the cursor (however, highlighting works when I use the arrow keys to move between them).

Could anybody shed some light on the above issues and explain to me if I'm doing anything wrong?

Thanks a lot for your help and please let me know if I need to provide more information about my issue.

Cheers,
Matteo

 		 	   		  
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