Re: [Qemu-devel] paravirtual tablet v3

[Anthony Liguori]

On 01/18/2011 07:46 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> > > Sure, someone needs to map multitouch to non-multitouch. I'd leave
> > > that job to the guest driver tough. Why do you think doing it in the
> > > host is better?
> >
> > My assumptions are 1) the host is capable of doing the mapping just as
> > easily as the guest
>
> Probably.
>
> > 2) the host can do something useful with the
> > information that the guest is not multitouch capable.
>
> What do you think of here?

Imagine a nice looking GUI, you would likely have icons representing the 
mouse status.   You've got at least PS/2 mouse, PS/2 mouse with capture, 
PV mouse in absolute mode, PV mouse in multitouch mode, etc.

VirtualBox has an interface like this FWIW (although not multitouch aware).

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> cheers,
>   Gerd