[vfio-users] VM loses mouse

Javier Celaya jcelaya at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 19:56:46 UTC 2017


Hi, you have to write 1) and 3) both at the same time, otherwise 1) is
discarded

El 30/4/2017 21:55, "Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc at usb.ve> escribió:

> On Sun, 2017-04-30 at 21:37 +0300, Zycorax Tokoroa wrote:
> > > Following advice from a private message, I attempted to add the evdev
> option
> > > within the QEMU XML (see https://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html for
> examples).
> > > However this didn't work:
> > >
> > > 1) I ran 'virsh edit ...' and changed the opening line to:
> > > <domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.
> org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>;;
> > > There were no objections from virsh but the change was simply
> discarded in the XML.
> > >
> > > 2) http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0 doesn't seem to be a
> > > valid URL.
> > >
> > > 3) Adding <qemu:commandline> options to the XML threw a syntax error
> > > from virsh.
> > >
> > > poc
> > >
> >
> > My mistake for not pressing reply to list.
> >
> > I have no explanation for why (1) wasn't saved, but I suggest you look
> > into that as it's the cause for issue (3).
>
> Clearly. Note that it's discarded silently, with no error message.
>
> According to https://askubuntu.com/questions/307066/i-cant-add-
> domain-type-kvm-xmlnsqemu-http-libvirt-org-schemas-domain-qe#458370
> the namespace is discarded if it's not used, but the attempt to use
> it is what gives the error from virsh:
>
> error: (domain_definition):5: error parsing attribute name
>         <qemu:arg value='-object'/>
>
> I presume that's because the namespace isn't being found at the URL,
> but that's just a guess as there's no explicit indication..
>
> > (2) is in the documentation https://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html (under
> > "Pass-through of arbitrary qemu commands") so it is valid even if
> > there's no backing page.
>
> I know it's in the documentation. Either the documentation is wrong or
> there's something else missing.
>
> poc
>
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