Web Console for Power8 KVM guest sends mouse events to guest mouse instead of guest tablet?
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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OpenStack Compute (nova) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
We're putting some IBM Power8 hardware into our cloud with RHEL7.5 and KVM. The guest mouse cursor in the web console doesn't sync up with the user's mouse. It moves with it in the same direction, but doesn't move at the same rate, and doesn't appear in the same position.
When we delete the mouse device from the guest, leaving only the tablet device, the web console's mouse starts working properly again.
We're currently running Pike, but should be at Queens in a few weeks if re-testing on the latest release is desired.
I can provide logs or libvirt xml upon request.
Apologies if this should have been filed against nova.
Update on 2019-01-14:
We've upgraded to Rocky, and the issue persists.
We think this issue has to do with the mouse being USB on Power8 but PS/2 on x86. When the tablet is USB but the mouse is PS/2, the tablet gets priority; when both are USB, the mouse does, and we get relative, rather than absolute, movement
description: | updated |
tags: | added: console powervm |
Changed in nova: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in nova: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
horizon just opens port 6080 provided by nova-novncproxy, so there is nothing to do in horizon.
Forwarding this to nova.