[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#702848: Bug#702848: libvirt-bin: On KVM with tablet middle scroll button on mouse doesn't work. On host it does.

[Guido Günther]

reassign 579968 qemu-kvm
forcemerge 579968 702848
thanks

Hi,
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:21:09AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 0.9.12-6
> Severity: minor
> 
> Despite the fact it's irritating as hell I recognize that not have a scroll button in a virtual machine is only a minor bug.  Hope there is a fix or workaround though because it sucks.
> 
> Anyway,  I have a logitech trackman trackball mouse with three buttons, the middle one being a scroll wheel and button.  On the debian wheezy host part of this setup it works, however inside a debian wheezy guest (both host and guest 64-bit btw) (qemu-kvm hypervisor), the scroll wheel fails to scroll.
> 
> Any thoughts on how to get this to work (i.e. is there a way to force it, since it's not 'just working' the way it should)?
> 
> I am assuming of course that it isn't just my setup, since I don't think I've done anything that would make this particular aspect 'special'.

This looks more like a qemu issue. Reassigning and merging with an
existing bug.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.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        0.18.1.1-9
> ii  libavahi-client3    0.6.31-1
> ii  libavahi-common3    0.6.31-1
> ii  libblkid1           2.20.1-5.3
> ii  libc6               2.13-38
> ii  libcap-ng0          0.6.6-2
> ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1
> ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.74-6
> ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-5
> ii  libgnutls26         2.12.20-4
> ii  libnetcf1           1:0.2.0-5
> ii  libnl1              1.1-7
> ii  libnuma1            2.0.8~rc4-1
> ii  libparted0debian1   2.3-12
> ii  libpcap0.8          1.3.0-1
> ii  libpciaccess0       0.13.1-2
> ii  libreadline6        6.2+dfsg-0.1
> ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.25.dfsg1-6
> ii  libudev0            175-7.1
> ii  libvirt0            0.9.12-6
> ii  libxenstore3.0      4.1.4-2
> ii  libxml2             2.8.0+dfsg1-7
> ii  libyajl2            2.0.4-2
> ii  logrotate           3.8.1-4
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
> ii  bridge-utils    1.5-6
> ii  dmidecode       2.11-9
> ii  dnsmasq-base    2.65-1
> ii  ebtables        2.0.10.4-1
> ii  gawk            1:4.0.1+dfsg-2
> ii  iproute         20120521-3+b3
> ii  iptables        1.4.14-3.1
> ii  libxml2-utils   2.8.0+dfsg1-7
> ii  netcat-openbsd  1.105-7
> ii  parted          2.3-12
> ii  qemu            1.1.2+dfsg-5
> ii  qemu-kvm        1.1.2+dfsg-5
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
> ii  policykit-1  0.105-3
> ii  radvd        1:1.8.5-1
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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