[et-mgmt-tools] virt-manager 0.3.0 can't see inactive vms?

[Hugh Brock]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:06:02AM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 17:48 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
>> Secondly, I'm using a HVM WinXP installation and I appear to be
>> suffering badly from the misaligned mouse pointer problem as mentioned
>> in the virt-manager FAQ. Are there any updates from the Xen team as to
>> when this is likely to be fixed?
> 
> The next release of virt-manager will implement a workaround - when moving
> the mouse cursor over the virtual console, we will grab the cursor and
> lock it to be within the console window - we can then hide the local cursor
> so you only see one. The trouble is to release the grab, you need a magic
> key sequence, eg hold down 'Ctrl + Alt', but I think this will still be
> better than the current situation which just sucks :-)
> 
> Further on, we plan to add support for turning on the USB graphics tablet
> emulation for Windows based OS which ought to be give saner cursor movement
> without need for the mouse grab.
> 
> Dan.

Another way around the problem, until we get a real fix, is to run a vnc 
server on your guest and connect to it from dom0 in the usual way. The 
mouse will work normally just as in any other regular vnc session. 
Drawback is that this doesn't give you real "console" access...

--Hugh

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