[vfio-users] input-linux first impressions

Blank Field ihatethisfield at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 14:17:52 UTC 2016


I've  the exact same problems when i used qemu's built in SDL window.
On Apr 14, 2016 5:13 PM, "Ivan Volosyuk" <ivan.volosyuk at gmail.com> wrote:

> First of all it is pretty cool to be able to skip the synergy and
> short-circuit multiple layers on the way of keyboard and mouse events. It
> was pretty easy to setup once I found the right options:
> EXTRA_ARGS+=" -object
> input-linux,id=mouse1,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB-PS_2_Optical_Mouse-event-mouse"
> EXTRA_ARGS+=" -object
> input-linux,id=mouse3,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-Razer_Razer_DeathAdder-event-mouse"
> EXTRA_ARGS+=" -object
> input-linux,id=kbd1,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-0b38_0010-event-kbd,grab_all=on"
> EXTRA_ARGS+=" -object
> input-linux,id=kbd2,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-Chicony_USB_Keyboard-event-kbd,grab_all=on"
>
> The was some rough edges as well. I stress-tested it playing Stacraft 2
> with a lot of mouse and keyboard events. Some of my keybindings require 2
> modifiers: e.g. ctrl-shift-r. The issues I found:
> - It seems some modifiers sometimes was getting stuck, so I was puzzled a
> few times when I couldn't select single unit (probably shift was stuck). I
> have to press all modifiers to get it released.
> - At some point mouse was ungrabbed and remained this way even I could
> still toggle grab state for my keyboard.
> - I have 2 extra mouse buttons and the Windows 8.1 didn't seem to receive
> any events for them.
> qemu: (Wed Apr 13 20:35:23 2016) 33e570288985611345c7d6e073a4b258c97573a8
> Linux 4.5.0+
>
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