[Spice-devel] No more mouse cursor in vms

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 07/14/2013 05:59 PM, Frédéric wrote:
> Hi spice developpers,
>
> I just updated my Fedora 18 to F19, with virt-preview activated.
> As a consequence (I think so, since I did not start my vms for few weeks), I lost the cursor in my windows VMs (XP and Win7). In safe mode or by switching to VNC mode (in virt-manager), I got it back, but the display is far slower of course...
> I tried to fully reinstall the guest tools (in safe mode, since updating the guest tools in normal mode fails due to some used files), but it does not change anything.
> I even destroyed and recreated the VM (using same disk, without reinstalling), but without success.
> I also had a look in redhat bugzilla, but could not found any related bug.
>
> Please tell me what you need and how I/you can help solve this (I may file a bug in bugzilla if you wish so).

Known issue, see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981094

I've asked Gerd Hoffmann to take a look, as he knows this area of the code best,
but given that it is vacation time it may be a while before someone actually
gets around to fixing this.

Regards,

Hans