[Spice-devel] No more mouse cursor in vms

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 07/15/2013 09:42 AM, agilboa at redhat.com wrote:
> On 07/14/2013 06:59 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).
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Frederic
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> Hi Frederic,
>
> Is it the same behavior when vdagent ("RHEV Spice Agent" service) is running on the guest and when it's disabled?
> When vdagent is disabled, is it the same behavior using qemu --usbtablet and without it?

Arnon, this is a known issue, which is unrelated to the agent being running or not, for details (including the cause,
but not a fix yet), please see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981094

Regards,

Hans