Star Red Hat Releases RHEL 5.1 with Greatly Improved Virtualization
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Nov 2007 22:50 UTC
Red Hat Red Hat announced Nov. 7 the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, with integrated virtualization. In claims that Red Hat representatives were well aware are extremely broad reaching, they said the new release will provides the most compelling platform for customers and software developers ever, with its industry-leading virtualization capabilities complementing Red Hat's newly announced Linux Automation strategy. It offers the industry's broadest deployment ecosystem, covering stand-alone systems, virtualized systems, appliances and Web-scale 'cloud' computing environments.
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I wonder if they fixed the mouse bug
by jrincayc on Thu 8th Nov 2007 03:38 UTC
jrincayc
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2007-07-24

Last time I checked windows and graphical linux were very difficult to use with virt-manager. The mouse on the screen and the mouse in the VM don't match up, so hitting buttons was very difficult. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=242676

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sultanqasim Member since:
2006-10-28

I am aware of this problem. It isn't really a bug, it's a missing feature. First of all, both the host and the guest OS are doing mouse tracking things (sensitivity and speed dampening etc.) and second, there is not code to make the mouse disappear in the host when the guest is in use. It will take a bit of lower level coding to fix these problems but my point is that it isn't a mistake on the dev's part.

*I think there is some code out to do these things but they haven't been incorporated as of 5.0 (haven't tried 5.1)

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zdzichu Member since:
2006-11-07

Shouldn't guest X just work in touchscreen/tablet mode? Host would just say "mouse is at X,Y" instead of "mouse moved X mixels up".

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laclasse Member since:
2007-01-03

This has been fixed. Now upon clicking in the guest operating system, the pointer of the host will disappear, only activating the guest pointer, with a pop up telling you to use Ctrl + Alt to release the host pointer.

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