Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is.

[Björn Höfling]

On Thu, 18 May 2017 00:42:18 +0200
Fox  wrote:

> so I run GuixSD (on bare metal nicely and) on qemu
> 
> but mouse capture is an issue in that gpm or whatever runs the mouse.
> 
> I "can't come back from the Immelmann loop" , so-to-speak. The only 
> "ESCAPE" is CTRL-ALT-F3  with root login and "reboot".
> 
> 
> I mean ... these days a VM should maybe be fine with mice of 21st. 
> century design or am I going down a wrong alley ?
> 
> 
> 

As others already pointed out, "Ctrl-Alt" is the way to get out of the
cage.

Mostly I don't use the VM-Window: I had some trouble with gpm and don't
know how to enable clipboard-sharing in QEMU, so I just use SSH:

My GuixSD-QEMU-Configuration has something like:

 (services (cons* 
... other services here ...
(dhcp-client-service)
(lsh-service #:port-number )
   %base-services))


Then in my host system I have an entry in my ~/.ssh/config:

Host g64
HostName localhost
Port 
User bjoern


When I now call "ssh g64" and enter my password, I'm connected to my
virtual machine and can use the normal mouse and copy/paste of my host
system as I would use with other remote machines.

You can also upload your SSH-Key in your virtual machine to avoid
password entering.

And probably when I would setup a new VM, I would use OpenSSH
(https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#index-openssh_002dservice_002dtype),
but when I started with my setup, there was only LSH.


Björn

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is.

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira]

I don't know what is the issue exactly, but from the QEMU documentation
I can see that, in order for it to grab or release mouse and keyboard,
one has to press Ctrl + Alt.

Lastly, strangely enough, I as a non-tech user understand QEMU as a
VM. But of course, no non-tech user's opinion replaces thechnical
ones. :)

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Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is.

[Fox]

On 18.05.2017 00:42, Fox wrote:

so I run GuixSD (on bare metal nicely and) on qemu

but mouse capture is an issue in that gpm or whatever runs the mouse.

I "can't come back from the Immelmann loop" , so-to-speak. The only 
"ESCAPE" is CTRL-ALT-F3  with root login and "reboot".



I mean ... these days a VM should maybe be fine with mice of 21st. 
century design or am I going down a wrong alley ?



it could be delay   somewhat longbefore Guixers are notified of the 
ESCAPE keypresses. I'll investigate.

GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is.

[Fox]

so I run GuixSD (on bare metal nicely and) on qemu

but mouse capture is an issue in that gpm or whatever runs the mouse.

I "can't come back from the Immelmann loop" , so-to-speak. The only 
"ESCAPE" is CTRL-ALT-F3  with root login and "reboot".



I mean ... these days a VM should maybe be fine with mice of 21st. 
century design or am I going down a wrong alley ?