[Libosinfo] [PATCH 2/2] win7: Add virtual kbd & mouse to supported devices

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Wed Apr 15 14:37:09 UTC 2015


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 03:29:33PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:34:43PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> While Microsoft Windows XP is known to crash early on during
> >> installation if USB keyboard and mouse are detected,
> >
> > I just created a VM in virt-manager, made sure USB keyboard/mouse were
> > there, and I've been able to successfully complete that install. Could
> > the bug be coming from somewhere else and not directly related to
> > winxp+usb? I did not find any mention of such crashes online either (but
> > I did not look too much).
> 
> Oh? Its possible it was a combination of some other config that Boxes
> sets. You did reproduce this crash in Boxes two weeks back so at least
> I'm not imagining it. :) In any case, I think these patches are still
> good.

What we really want to express is "this OS supports this class of input
devices". Your patches describe a specific type of USB mouse, and then
QEMU will present a different USB mouse to guests, this is very
inconsistent at best. So if we can do without because the bug is
elsewhere, it's better imo.

Christophe
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