The Win4Lin Pro version is not a driver, but rather a high-priority
Windows userspace thread. We try to avoid drivers as much as possible
because they are a serious obstacle to supporting new Windows versions
and service packs as they come out. I can't comment on VMware's
approach to be honest.
I will say that using a device that has readily and/or publicly
available drivers is probably ideal, such as a Wacom tablet. We are
trying to move to more of a device model on Win4Lin Pro for performance
reasons, which is why I am interested in this approach. But letting
Microsoft maintain the guest driver, if it's built into Windows, is the
best solution. It also guarantees the broadest possible guest support
in general - whether it be Linux, Mac OS X, etc.
If anyone has a link to Anthony Liguori's driver, I'd be glad to look
into fixing whatever may be wrong with it and posting the patches.
Thanks,
Leo Reiter
andrzej zaborowski wrote:
I thought Anthony Liguori had already written a Wacom tablet emulator
for QEMU and that worked fine except it supports only one button. I
don't remember if this support was complete and I don't have a link to
the patch.
With this you don't need to disable mouse acceleration in the guest OS
because it makes no sense to accelerate a tablet.
On the other hand writing a guest-side driver for QEMU would leave
room for further improvements like hiding/showing or
grabbing/releasing the mouse at specific moments. Or, possibly reusing
tools from Win4Lin or VMtools from VMware.
--
Leonardo E. Reiter
Vice President of Product Development, CTO
Win4Lin, Inc.
Virtual Computing from Desktop to Data Center
Main: +1 512 339 7979
Fax: +1 512 532 6501
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