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Hi.

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.

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.

Thanks,
Ernie

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Ernie Bisson
System Administrator & Virtualization
IBM Software Group
Mass Lab Central Services
550 King St. Littleton, MA. 01460
Email: ebisson at us.ibm.com
Phone: 978-899-3893
T/L  : 276-3893



From:	Ernest Bisson/Boston/Contr/IBM
To:	openstack at lists.openstack.org,
Date:	07/21/2014 03:57 PM
Subject:	No mouse control for a Windows 7 instance


Hi.

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.

# Sync virtual and real mouse cursors in Windows VMs (boolean
# value)
#use_usb_tablet=true

Can someone tell me how to get the mouse working for a Windows VM?

Thanks,
Ernie

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Ernie Bisson
System Administrator & Virtualization
IBM Software Group
Mass Lab Central Services
550 King St. Littleton, MA. 01460
Email: ebisson at us.ibm.com
Phone: 978-899-3893
T/L  : 276-3893
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