[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#717956: libvirt-bin: mouse cursor is invisible on Spice displays

[intrigeri at debian.org]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 1.1.0-4
Severity: important

Hi,

on my Debian unstable systems, libvirt/qemu VMs with QXL graphics and
Spice channels were forking flawlessly before I updated libvirt from
1.0.5 (that I had kept on hold for a while) to 1.1.0-4. Now, the mouse
cursor is made invisible when it crosses the boundary of a window that
displays such a VM. I can reproduce this both with spicy (from
spice-client-gtk 0.19-0nocelt3) and with virt-manager 0.9.5-1 (that
uses python-spice-client-gtk 0.19-0nocelt3).

Switching the display type from Spice to VNC enables me to use
virt-manager's integrated VM viewer, which properly displays the mouse
cursor. Still, some of my workflows severely suffer from the loss of
Spice functionality, hence the >> normal severity.

I'm not sure what exactly was pulled with the libvirt
1.1 upgrade, and I haven't access to the relevant logs anymore.
Possibly Spice tools were previously held back by me not upgrading
libvirt, so possibly they were upgraded at the same time. I strongly
suspect I'm not reporting this bug against the right component of the
qemu/libvirt/spice stack, so please reassign where it would be
more appropriate.

Any additional information I could provide that would be useful?

Thanks for your attention.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  gettext-base         0.18.3-1
ii  init-system-helpers  1.7
ii  libaudit0            1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libavahi-client3     0.6.31-2
ii  libavahi-common3     0.6.31-2
ii  libblkid1            2.20.1-5.5
ii  libc6                2.17-7
ii  libcap-ng0           0.7.3-1+b1
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.6.12-1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1   2:1.02.77-4
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.3-1
ii  libgnutls26          2.12.23-5
ii  libnetcf1            1:0.2.3-3
ii  libnl-3-200          3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200    3.2.21-1
ii  libnuma1             2.0.8-3
ii  libparted0debian1    2.3-13
ii  libpcap0.8           1.4.0-2
ii  libpciaccess0        0.13.1-2
ii  libreadline6         6.2+dfsg-0.1
ii  libsasl2-2           2.1.25.dfsg1-14
ii  libudev0             175-7.2
pn  libvirt0             <none>
ii  libxenstore3.0       4.2.2-1
ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-2
ii  libyajl2             2.0.4-4
ii  logrotate            3.8.5-1

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils                1.5-6
ii  dmidecode                   2.12-1
ii  dnsmasq-base                2.66-3
pn  ebtables                    <none>
ii  gawk                        1:4.0.1+dfsg-2.1
ii  iproute                     1:3.10.0-1
ii  iptables                    1.4.19.1-1
ii  libxml2-utils               2.9.1+dfsg1-2
ii  netcat-openbsd              1.105-7
ii  parted                      2.3-13
ii  pm-utils                    1.4.1-11
ii  qemu                        1.5.0+dfsg-5
ii  qemu-kvm                    1.5.0+dfsg-5
ii  qemu-system-x86 [qemu-kvm]  1.5.0+dfsg-5

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
pn  auditd       <none>
ii  policykit-1  0.110-3
pn  radvd        <none>
pn  systemtap    <none>

-- no debconf information

Cheers,
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