[fedora-virt] mouse stopped working in F16 guests (on F16 host, using VNC/cirrus)

[Cole Robinson]

On 01/23/2012 06:00 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 01/23/2012 05:47 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> I had a couple original F16 guests (un-updated) that I had originally
>> installed under a F13 host months ago.  I installed a new copy (not
>> upgraded) of F16 on the host and imported the guests with their
>> original storage.  This all worked fine until I did "yum update" on
>> the F16 guests (these guests are used for off-net testing, so they
>> were never updated until today--500+ entries in the update
>> transaction).  Now the mouse pointers don't show up in the guests in
>> virt-manager, and "xev" on the guests shows no mouse activity at all.
>>
>> I'm using cirrus for the video hardware and VNC for the remote display
>> protocol.  I've tried rebooting host & guests with no improvement.
>>
>> How can I troubleshoot/fix this?
>>
> 

I see you already found the culprit, but just so others know:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784391

Basically a fully updated f16 kvm guest has broken mouse. Fix is pulling in
the updated xorg-x11-drv-evdev package from that bug report. Will probably be
in stable soon enough.

- Cole