Running "remote-viewer --spice-debug" does show events for pushing the
scroll wheel left and right:
(remote-viewer:14226): GSpice-DEBUG: 17:09:00.043: spice-widget.c:2007
0:0 button_event press: button 8, state 0x10
(remote-viewer:14226): GSpice-DEBUG: 17:09:00.414: spice-widget.c:2007
0:0 button_event release: button 8, state 0x10
(remote-viewer:14226): GSpice-DEBUG: 17:09:01.045: spice-widget.c:2007
0:0 button_event press: button 9, state 0x10
(remote-viewer:14226): GSpice-DEBUG: 17:09:01.473: spice-widget.c:2007
0:0 button_event release: button 9, state 0x10
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 5:00 PM james harvey <jamespharve...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I didn't make it very clear that my Arch Linux guest didn't had tablet
> emulation. On it, evtest only shows "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer
> Mouse". On its monitor, "info mice" shows:
>
> * Mouse #2: QEMU PS/2 Mouse
>
> On the Windows 7 guest, you're right:
>
> Mouse #2: QEMU PS/2 Mouse
> * Mouse #3: QEMU HID Tablet (absolute)
>
> After restarting qemu without the tablet option it only shows:
>
> * Mouse #2: QEMU PS/2 Mouse
>
> But, the SIDE and EXTRA buttons still don't work, with Device Manager
> using "Microsoft PS/2 Mouse".
>
> Not knowing enough to know if the SPICE Guest Tools or QEMU guest
> agent could be affecting things, I uninstalled those from the Windows
> 7 guest, so the mouse is grabbed by the client. The extra buttons
> still don't work. In the Arch guest, I uninstalled spice-vdagent,
> which also didn't help.
>
> I ran across "-device virtio-mouse-pci", so tried adding that to my
> Arch guest, and it does become used over the PS/2, but the SIDE and
> EXTRA events still aren't working. In the guest, evtest shows "QEMU
> Virtio Mouse" and shows these buttons as supported events, and
> hw/input/virtio-input-hid.c maps the SIDE and EXTRA buttons, so I'm
> thinking it would be expected for it to work this way as well. Since
> it isn't, I'm thinking that might indicate the problem is a step
> closer to the physical hardware, from
> hw/input/{ps2,virtio-input-hid}.c.
>
> What is it that should send the events to the hw/input code? Could it
> be that remote-viewer isn't listening to the physical hardware events
> for these buttons? Or, is there an area within QEMU that should be
> receiving the events? Or could this be a spice issue? I'm not sure
> how these different parts interact for mouse events, or how to break
> down where this is happening.
>
> Also trying through libvirt rather than qemu directly, and using the
> virt-manager interface acts the same way. I'm guessing that's using
> remote-viewer, just embedded in the libvirt window, but I'm not
> positive on that.
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 1:48 PM Fabian Lesniak <fab...@lesniak-it.de> wrote:
> >
> > Probably the PS/2 mouse is not used at all because the HID Tablet takes
> > precedence. By entering "info mice" on the monitor console you can see
> > which mouse is currently used. If you disable or uninstall the HID
> > Tablet, the PS/2 mouse should take over.
> >
> > "IMEX" is short for Intelli Mouse Explorer.
> >
> > Am 16.12.18 um 06:40 schrieb james harvey:
> > > Running qemu 3.1.0. virt-viewer 7.0. spice, spice-gtk, and
> > > spice-protocol all git versions from the past week or so.
> > >
> > > I have a Logitech G600 mouse. The scroll wheel can be pushed left or
> > > right.
> > >
> > > On Arch Linux host, "evtest" shows these as event codes 275 (BTN_SIDE)
> > > and 276 (BTN_EXTRA.) In host, they work as expected, by default as
> > > back and forward in supporting programs such as web browsers.
> > >
> > > On Arch Linux guest, "evtest" shows these events as supported for the
> > > "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse", but it doesn't show those events as
> > > happening when I push the scroll wheel left or right. Other events
> > > work fine.
> > >
> > > On Windows 7 guest, there's no effect from pushing the scroll wheel
> > > left or right, either.
> > >
> > > I'm happy to help debug where the event forwarding is breaking down,
> > > but have no idea how to do that.
> > >
> > >
> > > Patch v1 for these buttons from Nov 24, 2016:
> > > https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg415246.html
> > >
> > > Patch v2 from Nov 28, 2016:
> > > https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg415690.html
> > >
> > > Patch v3 from Dec 6, 2016:
> > > https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg417007.html
> > >
> > >
> > > The v1 notes say: 'Note that the guest has to switch the ps2 mouse
> > > into IMEX mode, otherwise events of the extra buttons are ignored. For
> > > example on a Windows guest one needs to manually select the "Microsoft
> > > PS/2 Mouse" driver.'
> > >
> > > I'll admit I'm not sure what IMEX mode is. QEMU is providing the PS/2
> > > mouse emulation by default, and I don't see a way to give qemu options
> > > for it.
> > >
> > > Regardless, following this note's instructions for "IMEX mode", in
> > > Windows 7 guest, changing the driver from the default "Microsoft -
> > > PS/2 Compatible Mouse" to "Microsoft - Microsoft PS/2 Mouse" and
> > > rebooting guest has no effect. The extra buttons still don't work.
> > >
> > > Windows 7 Device Manager does show 2 "Mice and other pointing
> > > devices". First is "HID-compliant mouse"
> > > (HID\VID_0627&PID_0001&REV_0000) which shows it's USB, so I'm guessing
> > > that's the absolute movement EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet. Second is
> > > the PS/2 - currently set to "Microsoft PS/2 Mouse" (ACPI\PNP0F13).
