[Libosinfo] [PATCH 1/2] devices: Add virtual USB keyboard & mouse

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu Apr 2 10:42:05 UTC 2015


On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 06:36:59PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> When you start a VM with QEMU with USB keyboard/mouse it seems to be
>> >> using
>> >> 0627:0001 Adomax Technology Co., Ltd for mouse and keyboard (?)
>> >
>> > Interesting. Shall I add Adomax devices instead then? FWIW, the ones I
>> > added are the only virtual ones that I found.
>>
>> Hm.. I don't see any devices under "0627  Adomax Technology Co., Ltd"
>> in usb.ids though. I'm not sure we are supposed to add devices that
>> don't exist on .ids files.
>
> These IDs are reused from Bochs, I don't know why they used that :(
> I don't particularly mind using the ones from VMWare, I just don't know
> if they have some kind of magic meaning/behaviour when running in a
> VMWare hypervisor ?

I don't know either but I'm guessing they are just general USB mouse
and keyboard that they had to register as specific products to by used
in a virtual machine.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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