[vfio-users] VM loses mouse: SOLVED

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 19:50 +0200, Torbjorn Jansson wrote:
> On 2017-05-01 18:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 17:08 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 15:31 +0200, Javier Celaya wrote:
> > > > You have to use the device that ends with event, not mouse. You are almost
> > > > there!
> > > 
> > > That was it :-) I had three (kb, mouse-event and mouse) because of misunderstanding
> > > comments in https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2016/04/linux-evdev-input-support-in-qemu-2-6/
> > > but removing the last one fixed it.
> > > 
> > > Now I just have to fix the SElinux issue but that shouldn't be hard.
> > > 
> > > Thanks to you and <zycorax at phoxden.xyz> for your help.
> > 
> > And of course there's always something else: now I can't get the VM to
> > release the mouse. The above URL says this should happen with the two
> > CTRL keys, but it doesn't. The default virt-manager combo, which was
> > fine up to now, doesn't work either, so my only escape is to shut down
> > the VM.
> > 
> 
> as far as i can remember releasing the mouse has always been ctrl+alt

Same here, but with the evdev changes, that no longer works.

poc