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| author | Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> | 2015-04-14 20:06:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2015-04-15 00:29:03 +0300 |
| commit | 8b8be51b4fd365ac5983e117be9d28f427a07b68 (patch) | |
| tree | c349b86ce689de2a208513032006a01af4e86cae /drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig | |
| parent | b9bced0eecd77067f4659b90d5ab2fb32485c3e2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8b8be51b4fd365ac5983e117be9d28f427a07b68.tar.xz | |
Input: add vmmouse driver
VMMouse enables low-latency mouse-cursor-movements for VMWare and QEMU
guests. By removing the guest cursor and using the host as a guest cursor
the cursor movement appears instant although in reality there is some lag.
To be able to do this, the host's view of the cursor position must exactly
match the guest's view and an absolute pointer device is needed. Enter the
VMMouse. While the VMMouse driver has historically been an Xorg user-space
driver, implementing it as a kernel imput driver enables rootless Xorg and
new compositing display servers for VMware guests.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig b/drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig index 4658b5d41dd7..7462d2fc8cfe 100644 --- a/drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig @@ -149,6 +149,18 @@ config MOUSE_PS2_FOCALTECH If unsure, say Y. +config MOUSE_PS2_VMMOUSE + bool "Virtual mouse (vmmouse)" + depends on MOUSE_PS2 && X86 && HYPERVISOR_GUEST + help + Say Y here if you are running under control of VMware hypervisor + (ESXi, Workstation or Fusion). Also make sure that when you enable + this option, you remove the xf86-input-vmmouse user-space driver + or upgrade it to at least xf86-input-vmmouse 13.0.1, which doesn't + load in the presence of an in-kernel vmmouse driver. + + If unsure, say N. + config MOUSE_SERIAL tristate "Serial mouse" select SERIO |