Re: Mouse movement response time
Hello JD,
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:10:08PM -0700, JD wrote:
> Hi all,
> Sometimes I like to run Knoppix as a guest in VirtualBox
> with Fedora as the host.
>
> The problem I am having is that the mouse movement
> and positioning (in knoppox guest) is so horribly slow as
> to make it totally unusable. This is not the case with other
> guests, like another fedora as guest, or windows even.
>
> If anyone has insights into this and how you solved
> it, please share with the rest of us.
I noticed that mouse acceleration sometimes differs in kvm/qemu compared
to the surrounding native xorg. I'm not entirely sure why this is, it
may be an option in the generated xorg.conf, maybe related to "HWCursor"
vs. "SWCursor", or just internal calibration of the usually
"experimental" version of xorg that I use because of support for newer
hardware.
I did not experience pointer delays or "slowness" yet, though, rather
the pointer was moving "too fast". I use Virtualbox rather seldom,
because kvm currently has better scripting and internal virtaul network
infrastructure.
You can probably set mouse acelleration in the guest operating system using
xset mouse 4
or
xset mouse 8
or even higher values.
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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