[et-mgmt-tools] Adding -usbdevice=tablet for qemu domains

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 04:38:46PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using virt-manager to create a guest Windows XP installation
> using qemu-kvm. I am finding that the mouse doesn't work well in
> virt-manager sessions, but it works fine when starting a qemu SDL
> window from the command line. My reading leads me to understand this
> is because virt-manager sessions use VNC to communicate with the guest
> domain.
> 
> Further reading about qemu-dm and VNC and mice suggests that the way
> around this ubiquitous problem is  gotten around by passing
> usbdevice=tablet to qemu. So my question is, how to do this within
> virt-manager/virsh?

You can't currently. We're working on this support for the next release
though, at which point it'll be done automatically without need for any
special action by the user.

Dan
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