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

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 04:23:56PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:52:27PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 04:01:46PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> >> I don't think the inconsistency is significant enough and is not
> >> >> actually introduced by these patches themselves. Libosinfo is just
> >> >> saying "these devices are supported by the OS" with these patches and
> >> >> if Boxes or qemu (or other apps) add a slightly different device based
> >> >> on this information, that is not a fault of libosinfo.
> >> >
> >> > Yes, this would be Boxes/qemu faults for not following what libosinfo
> >> > told it to and adding a USB mouse when libosinfo never told it this
> >> > specific mouse was supported. In this patch what you really are trying
> >> > to say is that it's able to support any USB mouse, not the VMWare one.
> >>
> >> Huh? How so? Your last sentence is contradicting the previous one.
> >
> > This patch is adding a specific device definition (QEMU supports a
> > specific USB mouse provided by VMWare).
> > What you need/really want in this series is a way to say "QEMU supports
> > HID devices whose protocol is "Mouse" "
> 
> Sure, how do I do that?

New <device-class> node?

> I already suggested that I can instead add the
> exact devices qemu uses even if they are not properly registered. If I
> had an easy way to find out if there really is any signficant enough
> difference between these two different set of devices, it would have
> made things easy but I failed to find any documentation that could
> clarify this.
>

It turns out the usb tablet which is already in qemu-usb.xml is already
some random device compared to what QEMU exposes in the guest.

> Not about my interest, but for reasons I mentioned in my previous
> mail, mainly lack of time.

The next issue here is that saying that Windows XP does not support USB
mouses/keyboard is incorrect. The magic knowledge encoding that XP automatic
installation should not use USB keyboard/mouse would make more sense in
libvirt-designer/libvirt-builder (or Boxes in the mean time).

Christophe
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