[Libosinfo] [PATCH 2/2] win7: Add virtual kbd & mouse to supported devices

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

Hi,

So shall I push these two patches or not? They are needed for
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735768

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> While Microsoft Windows XP is known to crash early on during
> installation if USB keyboard and mouse are detected, Windows 7 and
> beyond support them out of the box.
>
> Moreover, it has been reported[1] that PS/2 virtual devices are much
> slower than USB ones in Windows 8.1.
>
> Lets add these devices to list of supported devices to Windows 7 (and
> therefore all inheriting OSes, e.g Windows 8.1) so that virtual machine
> manager apps (e.g Boxes) have an easy way to decide whether to use USB
> or PS/2 devices for a particular Windows OS.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735768
> ---
>  data/oses/windows.xml.in | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/data/oses/windows.xml.in b/data/oses/windows.xml.in
> index f5052b9..e94f878 100644
> --- a/data/oses/windows.xml.in
> +++ b/data/oses/windows.xml.in
> @@ -865,6 +865,8 @@
>
>      <devices>
>        <device id="http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids/8086/2668"/> <!-- ICH6 -->
> +      <device id="http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids/0e0f/0003"/>           <!-- Virtual USB mouse -->
> +      <device id="http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids/0e0f/0006"/>           <!-- Virtual USB keyboard -->
>      </devices>
>
>      <installer>
> --
> 2.1.0
>



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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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