On Monday, 29-07-2024 at 14:13 Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have KVM/QEMU/libvirt installed to manage my VMs. I have a Debian 12
> guest, x86_64, fully patched. The Debian guest has qemu-guest-agent
> installed. The qemu-guest-agent service is running on the Debian
> guest.
>
> The problem is, the Debian guest does not automatically release the
> mouse. I have to tap the right CTRL key.
>
> My question is, what else needs to be done to automatically release
> the mouse pointer in the Debian guest?
Not sure whether you use Spice or VNC to connect to your VMs.
I do not experience the issue you report with GUI enabled VMs, only with VMs
that do not have a GUI installed (i.e. headless VMs).
I use Virt-Manager to manage my VMs, I believe Virt-Manager defaults to using
Spice, hence I install spice-vdagent on my GUI VMs and on non-GUI VMs I connect
from a terminal using ssh.
I hope the above is of some help to you?
George.
>
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>
> $ sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent
> $ sudo systemctl status qemu-guest-agent
> ● qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent
> Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/qemu-guest-agent.service; static)
> Active: active (running) since Mon 2024-07-29 00:01:39 EDT; 9min ago
> Main PID: 574 (qemu-ga)
> Tasks: 2 (limit: 4589)
> Memory: 1.2M
> CPU: 2ms
> CGroup: /system.slice/qemu-guest-agent.service
> └─574 /usr/sbin/qemu-ga
>
> Jul 29 00:01:39 debian12-x64 systemd[1]: Started qemu-guest-agent.service ...
>
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>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff
>
>
