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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi Thiago.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I think I may have figured out some more pieces to the puzzle regarding the inconsistent results I mentioned earlier. For the most part I've been using the dashboard to create/launch/terminate images. There is a directory on each compute node /var/lib/nova/instances/ which seems to contain copies of images that have been launched to it as well as other files related to them. I think what happened is I had launched a Windows image to my compute node and saw that the pointer wasn't working. I then enabled use_usb_tablet in /etc/nova/nova.conf . I may have terminated the previously launched image using the dashboard (not totally sure if I did this) and then rebooted the compute node. At this point the mouse still didn't not work. However, I noticed that when launching the image this time it booted very fast compared to when I did it the first time. I looked in /var/lib/nova/instances/_base and discovered a copy of the image that had been created earlier in the day. In my next test I shutdown/terminated the instance from the dashboard but this time I deleted all files related to it in /var/lib/nova/instances/_base. I then launched a new copy of the Windows 7 image. This time it took a lot longer to complete because it was once again creating a local copy on the compute node. Once it was up and running I opened the console and my mouse was now working. Although a couple of times it started working and then would suddenly stop (this seems like a definite bug). Also, when terminating/removing an image from the dashboard I would think the local copies of it on compute nodes should be deleted too. Not sure if it's a bug or by design that they are not.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Anyways... you may want to try deleting the files in /var/lib/nova/instances/ and re-launch your Windows image to see if it solves the issue for you.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Ernie</font><br>
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Ernie Bisson<br>
System Administrator & Virtualization<br>
IBM Software Group<br>
Mass Lab Central Services<br>
550 King St. Littleton, MA. 01460<br>
Email: ebisson@us.ibm.com<br>
Phone: 978-899-3893<br>
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<img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABBF78EDFFD30C18f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Ernest Bisson---07/22/2014 01:39:04 PM---Hi Thiago. Since the last e-mail I sent you I have been doin"><font size="2" color="#424282" face="sans-serif">Ernest Bisson---07/22/2014 01:39:04 PM---Hi Thiago. Since the last e-mail I sent you I have been doing some more testing. Although I've had s</font><br>
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<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">From: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Ernest Bisson/Boston/Contr/IBM</font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">To: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@gmail.com>, </font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Date: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">07/22/2014 01:39 PM</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi Thiago.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Since the last e-mail I sent you I have been doing some more testing. Although I've had some inconsistent results, I does seem to work for me when put into the [libvirt] group in nova.conf. I thought it was strange that it didn't work at first since I don't think it should matter where it's located in the config file. I'm not quite sure why it didn't work when I first tried.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Good luck,</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Ernie</font><br>
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Ernie Bisson<br>
System Administrator & Virtualization<br>
IBM Software Group<br>
Mass Lab Central Services<br>
550 King St. Littleton, MA. 01460<br>
Email: ebisson@us.ibm.com<br>
Phone: 978-899-3893<br>
T/L : 276-3893</font><br>
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<img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABBF78EDFFD30C18f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Martinx - ジェームズ ---07/22/2014 01:18:40 PM---Hi Ernest, Thank you for your time!"><font size="2" color="#424282" face="sans-serif">Martinx - ジェームズ ---07/22/2014 01:18:40 PM---Hi Ernest, Thank you for your time!</font><br>
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<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">From: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@gmail.com></font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">To: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Ernest Bisson/Boston/Contr/IBM@IBMUS, </font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Date: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">07/22/2014 01:18 PM</font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Subject: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Re: [Openstack] No mouse control for a Windows 7 instance</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">Hi Ernest,</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">Thank you for your time!</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">This option isn't working on IceHouse with Ubuntu... I tried it under [DEFAULT] at nova.conf, nova-compute.conf, under [libvirt], didn't worked...</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">I'll fill a bug about this...</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">Best!</font><br>
<font size="3" face="serif">Thiago</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">On 22 July 2014 11:41, Ernest Bisson <</font><a href="mailto:ebisson@us.ibm.com" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="serif"><u>ebisson@us.ibm.com</u></font></a><font size="3" face="serif">> wrote:</font>
<ul style="padding-left: 9pt"><font size="3" face="sans-serif">Hi Thiago.</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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I'm installing on RedHat but I would think the configuration would be pretty much the same. However, RedHat uses /etc/nova/nova.conf not /etc/nova/nova-compute.conf. According to the install guide I have for Ubuntu that is the file you should be using as well. I wonder if that is part of your problem.</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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The other part is that putting "use_usb_tablet=true</font><font size="3" face="sans-serif"><b>"</b></font><font size="3" face="sans-serif"> in the [libvirt] group doesn't seem to have any effect (at least not on RedHat). Just like on Ubuntu, the [libvirt] group is the default location for that option on RedHat. Since most other options during nova configuration on RedHat were added to the "[DEFAULT]" group I decided to try putting it there. On RedHat, the [DEFAULT] group can be found at the top of /etc/nova/nova.conf. Putting it there solved it for me.</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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Hope this helps,</font>
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Ernie</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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Ernie Bisson<br>
System Administrator & Virtualization<br>
IBM Software Group<br>
Mass Lab Central Services<br>
550 King St. Littleton, MA. 01460<br>
Email: </font><a href="mailto:ebisson@us.ibm.com" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>ebisson@us.ibm.com</u></font></a><font size="3" face="sans-serif"><br>
Phone: </font><a href="tel:978-899-3893" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>978-899-3893</u></font></a><font size="3" face="sans-serif"><br>
T/L : 276-3893</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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To: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Ernest Bisson/Boston/Contr/IBM@IBMUS, </font><font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif"><br>
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Date: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">07/21/2014 08:05 PM</font><font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif"><br>
Subject: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Re: [Openstack] No mouse control for a Windows 7 instance</font><br>
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Ernest,<br>
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Where did you put your "use_usb_tablet=true" config option?!<br>
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The doc </font><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/config-reference/content/nova-conf-changes-icehouse.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="serif"><u>http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/config-reference/content/nova-conf-changes-icehouse.html</u></font></a><font size="3" face="serif"> recommends under [libvirt] group...<br>
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I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 + IceHouse and I configured this option within the file "/etc/nova/nova-compute.conf" with at:<br>
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use_usb_tablet=true<br>
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But, it have no effect.<br>
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I'm seeing the following line at the logs:<br>
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nova-compute.log:2014-07-21 20:53:42.782 7435 DEBUG nova.openstack.common.service [-] libvirt.use_usb_tablet = True log_opt_values /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo/config/cfg.py:1949<br>
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But the Instance's XML have no "tablet" entry. I checked it via both logs and using "virsh dumpxml instance-xxxxxxxx"...<br>
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What am I missing?<br>
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I really appreciate any help! Tks!<br>
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BTW, I'm using SPICE Consoles...<br>
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Cheers!<br>
Thiago<br>
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On 21 July 2014 17:46, Ernest Bisson <</font><a href="mailto:ebisson@us.ibm.com" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="serif"><u>ebisson@us.ibm.com</u></font></a><font size="3" face="serif">> wrote: </font>
<ul style="padding-left: 36pt"><font size="3" face="sans-serif">Hi.<br>
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After taking one more look at nova.conf I figured out the issue. I had followed the instructions in OpenStack Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Fedora to install/configure everything. With this method the configuration settings for services get stored in the "[DEFAULT]" section at the top of the various .conf files. Moving the use_usb_tablet=true line into this section fixed the problem.<br>
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This brings me to another question though... Is there a way to set the console so only the VM's pointer is present? Other console clients have this feature and usually a function key is hit to exit that mode and get the local systems pointer back.</font><font size="3" face="serif"> </font>
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Thanks,<br>
Ernie<br>
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Ernie Bisson<br>
System Administrator & Virtualization<br>
IBM Software Group<br>
Mass Lab Central Services<br>
550 King St. Littleton, MA. 01460<br>
Email: </font><a href="mailto:ebisson@us.ibm.com" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>ebisson@us.ibm.com</u></font></a><font size="3" face="sans-serif"><br>
Phone: </font><a href="tel:978-899-3893" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>978-899-3893</u></font></a><font size="3" face="sans-serif"><br>
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Date: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">07/21/2014 03:57 PM</font><font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif"><br>
Subject: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">No mouse control for a Windows 7 instance</font>
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Hi.<br>
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I setup a small test/development environment to get familiar with setting up an OpenStack environment. It consists of 1 network, 1 controller, and 1 compute node. Within it I imported/launched the Cirros test image, a Redhat 6.5 install iso image, and a Windows 7 qcow2 image (the KVM I run on my RedHat laptop) . Everything seems to work fine except accessing the Windows 7 console. After initiating a console connection via "nova get-vnc-console Windows7 novnc" I'm able to connect to it from Firefox but I don't have any control of the VM's mouse. When doing the same with the RedHat 6.5 image the VM's mouse moves along with my laptop's mouse. I did find the following in /etc/nova/nova.conf but enabling it and restarting the compute node had no effect.<br>
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# Sync virtual and real mouse cursors in Windows VMs (boolean<br>
# value)<br>
#use_usb_tablet=true<br>
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Can someone tell me how to get the mouse working for a Windows VM?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Ernie<br>
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Ernie Bisson<br>
System Administrator & Virtualization<br>
IBM Software Group<br>
Mass Lab Central Services<br>
550 King St. Littleton, MA. 01460<br>
Email: </font><a href="mailto:ebisson@us.ibm.com" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>ebisson@us.ibm.com</u></font></a><font size="3" face="sans-serif"><br>
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