[SOLVED] Mouse cursor in KVM guest

kikinovak · 03-18-2016, 04:06 AM

Hi,

I just installed a series of Slackware KVM guests, some of them booting to runlevel 4. Everything works fine, but mouse movement is a bit jerky.

Anyone knows how to fine-tune that?

Alien Bob · 03-18-2016, 04:18 AM

Add " -usb -usbdevice tablet" to your qemu commandline. You will get a properly working mouse in your guests without any re-configuration of your guests. The host's mouse position will be used in the guest even without having to click inside the window to give it focus.

Gerardo Zamudio · 03-18-2016, 07:37 PM

You're using virt-manager, right? The equivalent for that is to open up the virtual machine details > Add Hardware > Input > EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet. I always select "USB Connected Mouse" during the Slackware install for the mouse type but I don't think it matters.

kikinovak · 03-23-2016, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gerardo Zamudio

You're using virt-manager, right? The equivalent for that is to open up the virtual machine details > Add Hardware > Input > EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet. I always select "USB Connected Mouse" during the Slackware install for the mouse type but I don't think it matters.

Thanks very much. That did the trick.

Cheers,

Niki

SkarmoutsosV · 12-07-2020, 12:10 PM

Few years later and having about the same problem, the SOLVED flag of this thread gave me the confidence that a solution is feasible.

So, after some lucky thought, I changed my VM's screen resolution to mach the host screen resolution and the offset mouse behavior was gone.

Than you for the inspiration.