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

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Tue Mar 31 19:34:43 UTC 2015


While Microsoft Windows XP is known to crash early on during
installation if USB keyboard and mouse are detected, Windows 7 and
beyond support them out of the box.

Moreover, it has been reported[1] that PS/2 virtual devices are much
slower than USB ones in Windows 8.1.

Lets add these devices to list of supported devices to Windows 7 (and
therefore all inheriting OSes, e.g Windows 8.1) so that virtual machine
manager apps (e.g Boxes) have an easy way to decide whether to use USB
or PS/2 devices for a particular Windows OS.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735768
---
 data/oses/windows.xml.in | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/data/oses/windows.xml.in b/data/oses/windows.xml.in
index f5052b9..e94f878 100644
--- a/data/oses/windows.xml.in
+++ b/data/oses/windows.xml.in
@@ -865,6 +865,8 @@
 
     <devices>
       <device id="http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids/8086/2668"/> <!-- ICH6 -->
+      <device id="http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids/0e0f/0003"/>           <!-- Virtual USB mouse -->
+      <device id="http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids/0e0f/0006"/>           <!-- Virtual USB keyboard -->
     </devices>
 
     <installer>
-- 
2.1.0




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