Mouse Sync Issues when connecting using VNC through KVM host

Submitted by learning01 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 14:22

Everyone,

This is one annoying bug and I am confident it is not cloudmin but KVM itself. when RDPing into VM machines through VNC, there are two mouse show up with each having its own mind. Both of these mouse are far apart from each other and are not in sync.

Having said that there is a way to solve it but not sure how would it be done through cloudmin as cloudmin over takes other virtualization managers. As per Qemu documentation, the answer may be starting the guest with the following options

-usb -usbdevice tablet

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 14:38

Actually, if you run Cloudmin 5.8 or later, it should start new VMs with the -usbdevice tablet flag already to fix this exact issue.

If you re-start a problem VM after upgrading to 5.8, do you still see this issue?

Submitted by learning01 on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 00:26

Current version of cloudmin is 5.7, I tried upgrading as per the upgrade in documentation.I did yum update.which resulted in no packages marked for update so I tried the following
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[root@**************** yum.repos.d]# yum install wbm-server-manager
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.mirror.netelligent.ca
* centosplus: centos.mirror.netelligent.ca
* extras: centos.mirror.netelligent.ca
* updates: centos.mirror.netelligent.ca
Setting up Install Process
Package wbm-server-manager-5.7.kvm-1.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
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Is the update available from repository?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 00:57

Try forcing an YUM re-check and upgrade with the commands :

yum clean all
yum install webmin-server-manager

If that doesn't help, could you post the contents of your system's /etc/yum.repos.d/cloudmin.repo file ?

Submitted by learning01 on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 01:18

I already did that and even disabled the Centos Repos to see if it picks up from the cloudmin.

here is the cat of the cloudmin.repo

baseurl=http://cloudmin.virtualmin.com/kvm/universal/
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin
gpgcheck=1

Here is the yum search

[root@********** yum.repos.d]# yum search wbm-server-manager
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
=================================================================== Matched: wbm-server-manager ===================================================================
wbm-server-manager.noarch : Webmin module for 'Cloudmin GPL for KVM'

here is yum install

[root@********yum.repos.d]# yum install wbm-server-manager
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Install Process
Package wbm-server-manager-5.7.kvm-1.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 11:53

Oh, you are using the GPL version of CLoudmin .. looks like I may not have correctly updated the repository for that to 5.8. Try running this again :

yum clean all
yum install webmin-server-manager

Submitted by learning01 on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 12:18

Yes I now see the file in universal directory. The new 5.8 fixed the issue