[vfio-users] VM loses mouse

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2017-04-14 at 16:55 -0700, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
>  <poc at usb.ve> (Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 12:24:58AM +0100T):
> > My Windows 10 VM occasionally seems to lose its mouse connection, i.e.
> > the cursor doesn't move and mouse buttons are ignored. This tends to
> > happen when gaming. As a first attempt to fix this I attached a second
> > mouse and the problem seemed to reduce for a time, but has now returned
> > . Both mice are currently on front ports, i.e. presumably attached to
> > the same USB header.
> 
> I don't have a solution, but have the same problem. (I don't play games;
> happens to me using modeling software.) Been too busy to use it much so
> I haven't been looking for a solution, but would love one - it kinda
> makes the exercise pointless.
> 
> For a while I thought it was Synergy-related[1], but it happens without
> running that. System is stock Ubuntu 1604, I'm not passing USB through,
> just an Nvidia Quadro K4000. I have a mouse and a trackball, as well as
> a mouse-like device for making small, precise motions. When the VM loses
> it, they all die.

Yes, I'm not using Synergy either, just the built-in PS2 mouse (i.e.
not passing through any USB devices explicitly). My host is Fedora 25.
GPU is Nvidia GTX1050 but that's probably not relevant.

poc