[vfio-users] VM loses mouse

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 15:34 +0300, Zycorax Tokoroa wrote:
> > OK, I did the following:
> > 
> > * Added the 'qemu' user to the 'input' group.
> > * Edited /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf to add the evdev devices
> > * Restarted libvirtd
> > 
> > I still get the same error.
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> 
> 
> - Check the ownership of the /dev/input/ devices matches what I've seen
> in my experience (root:input).

It does.

> - Note that the user VMs are run as is "libvirt-qemu", not just "qemu",
> at least in the systems I've worked with. If your distribution uses a
> different user, this can be found by running a simple dummy VM.

There is no libvirt-qemu user. VMs run as 'qemu'. This is Fedora 25.

> - Note that /dev/input/ aren't guaranteed to always be the same with
> every host boot. /dev/input/by-id/ should grant a non-changing name, iirc.

That's what I'm using (my earlier example used 'eventX' but changing it
to /dev/input/by-id makes no difference).

> Alternatively to the two first points, you could set the ownership of
> the devices involved to libvirt-qemu before launching the VM.

Tried that. No change.

poc