VMs on Fedora Workstation
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I'm running up some test VMs in Virtual Machine Manager.
My biggest issue is keyboard and mouse interaction and swapping between the VM and host.
Once the mouse gets locked to the VM it becomes useless in both the host and VM, jittery and uncontrollable. When I switch it back to the host it becomes invisible or lost behind the VMM window.
The VM is a 2016 server.
I've used other virtualisation products that require additional tools so you can easily switch between VM and host and share drives etc. Are there tools for VMM I need to install?
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Seem to have found a temp fix from here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/10/msg00199.htmlFortunately, I found a hacky solution in VMM: Add Hardware --> Input --> EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet
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Did you install THIS inside of your Windows VM?
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@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
Did you install THIS inside of your Windows VM?
I changed my 'Display' setting from Spice to VNC, that gave me 2 mouse cursors. Then I added a Tablet, that got rid of the extra cursor and everything now seems to work OK.
No, I wouldn't have been able to install anything into the VM before the changes mentioned above as the mouse was unusable.
I'll do it now and see what happens.
I also built a VM using Boxes. That was going OK, but now I've lost video all together.
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@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
Did you install THIS inside of your Windows VM?
I changed my 'Display' setting from Spice to VNC, that gave me 2 mouse cursors. Then I added a Tablet, that got rid of the extra cursor and everything now seems to work OK.
No, I wouldn't have been able to install anything into the VM before the changes mentioned above as the mouse was unusable.
I'll do it now and see what happens.
I also built a VM using Boxes. That was going OK, but now I've lost video all together.
I don't like or ever use boxes.
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@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
Did you install THIS inside of your Windows VM?
I changed my 'Display' setting from Spice to VNC, that gave me 2 mouse cursors. Then I added a Tablet, that got rid of the extra cursor and everything now seems to work OK.
No, I wouldn't have been able to install anything into the VM before the changes mentioned above as the mouse was unusable.
I'll do it now and see what happens.
I also built a VM using Boxes. That was going OK, but now I've lost video all together.
I don't like or ever use boxes.
How come?
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@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
Did you install THIS inside of your Windows VM?
I changed my 'Display' setting from Spice to VNC, that gave me 2 mouse cursors. Then I added a Tablet, that got rid of the extra cursor and everything now seems to work OK.
No, I wouldn't have been able to install anything into the VM before the changes mentioned above as the mouse was unusable.
I'll do it now and see what happens.
I also built a VM using Boxes. That was going OK, but now I've lost video all together.
I don't like or ever use boxes.
How come?
I tried it once. It was not very elegant. Using KVM was far superior. No idea why Boxes is even being promoted, it seems like a hokey solution to a problem that no one has.
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@scottalanmiller said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
Did you install THIS inside of your Windows VM?
I changed my 'Display' setting from Spice to VNC, that gave me 2 mouse cursors. Then I added a Tablet, that got rid of the extra cursor and everything now seems to work OK.
No, I wouldn't have been able to install anything into the VM before the changes mentioned above as the mouse was unusable.
I'll do it now and see what happens.
I also built a VM using Boxes. That was going OK, but now I've lost video all together.
I don't like or ever use boxes.
How come?
I tried it once. It was not very elegant. Using KVM was far superior. No idea why Boxes is even being promoted, it seems like a hokey solution to a problem that no one has.
Boxes suppose to be user-friendly for those use to using those type 2 hypervisor UI.
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@black3dynamite said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@scottalanmiller said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
Did you install THIS inside of your Windows VM?
I changed my 'Display' setting from Spice to VNC, that gave me 2 mouse cursors. Then I added a Tablet, that got rid of the extra cursor and everything now seems to work OK.
No, I wouldn't have been able to install anything into the VM before the changes mentioned above as the mouse was unusable.
I'll do it now and see what happens.
I also built a VM using Boxes. That was going OK, but now I've lost video all together.
I don't like or ever use boxes.
How come?
I tried it once. It was not very elegant. Using KVM was far superior. No idea why Boxes is even being promoted, it seems like a hokey solution to a problem that no one has.
Boxes suppose to be user-friendly for those use to using those type 2 hypervisor UI.
I don't think it is, though. KVM already makes it "feel" like a traditional type 2, Boxes only takes away from that experience.
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@scottalanmiller said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@black3dynamite said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@scottalanmiller said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
Did you install THIS inside of your Windows VM?
I changed my 'Display' setting from Spice to VNC, that gave me 2 mouse cursors. Then I added a Tablet, that got rid of the extra cursor and everything now seems to work OK.
No, I wouldn't have been able to install anything into the VM before the changes mentioned above as the mouse was unusable.
I'll do it now and see what happens.
I also built a VM using Boxes. That was going OK, but now I've lost video all together.
I don't like or ever use boxes.
How come?
I tried it once. It was not very elegant. Using KVM was far superior. No idea why Boxes is even being promoted, it seems like a hokey solution to a problem that no one has.
Boxes suppose to be user-friendly for those use to using those type 2 hypervisor UI.
I don't think it is, though. KVM already makes it "feel" like a traditional type 2, Boxes only takes away from that experience.
I was more confused using Boxes UI compared to Virtual Machine Manager.
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@black3dynamite said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@scottalanmiller said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@black3dynamite said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@scottalanmiller said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@siringo said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
@obsolesce said in VMs on Fedora Workstation:
Did you install THIS inside of your Windows VM?
I changed my 'Display' setting from Spice to VNC, that gave me 2 mouse cursors. Then I added a Tablet, that got rid of the extra cursor and everything now seems to work OK.
No, I wouldn't have been able to install anything into the VM before the changes mentioned above as the mouse was unusable.
I'll do it now and see what happens.
I also built a VM using Boxes. That was going OK, but now I've lost video all together.
I don't like or ever use boxes.
How come?
I tried it once. It was not very elegant. Using KVM was far superior. No idea why Boxes is even being promoted, it seems like a hokey solution to a problem that no one has.
Boxes suppose to be user-friendly for those use to using those type 2 hypervisor UI.
I don't think it is, though. KVM already makes it "feel" like a traditional type 2, Boxes only takes away from that experience.
I was more confused using Boxes UI compared to Virtual Machine Manager.
Oh yeah, I tried it and could not figure out what was going on.
