[vfio-users] VM loses mouse: SOLVED

[Torbjorn Jansson]

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