Bug 16954

Summary:	mouse does not work in vmware with kernel 4.1
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, ngompa13, sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud
Version:	5	Keywords:	validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	has_procedure MGA5-64-OK MGA5-32-OK advisory
Source RPM:	x11-driver-input-vmmouse-13.0.0-10.mga5.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2015-10-13 15:25:41 CEST

The kernel 4.1 update broke the mouse functionality in VMWare VMs.

This was fixed upstream in x11-driver-input-vmmouse 13.1.0:
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-June/002616.html

Updated package uploaded for Mageia 5.

Advisory:
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The x11-driver-input-vmmouse package has been updated to version 13.1.0,
enabling the mouse to function again in VMWare virtual machines.

References:
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-June/002616.html
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Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
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x11-driver-input-vmmouse-13.1.0-1.mga5

from x11-driver-input-vmmouse-13.1.0-1.mga5.src.rpm

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 David Walser 2015-10-13 15:26:10 CEST

I've confirmed the update fixes the issue on Mageia 5 i586.

Whiteboard: (none) => has_procedure MGA5-32-OK

Comment 2 David Walser 2015-10-13 15:27:18 CEST

Note to Thierry, if you read:
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-June/002616.html

It sounds like we can drop this package in Cauldron and change the installer and drakx11 to use something else (not sure what, evdev?) as the mouse driver and the kernel will handle things.

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Dave Hodgins 2015-10-13 19:23:07 CEST

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Whiteboard: has_procedure MGA5-32-OK => has_procedure MGA5-32-OK advisory

Comment 3 Neal Gompa 2015-10-13 20:38:54 CEST

Confirmed that the update fixes the issue on Mageia 5 i586.

CC: (none) => ngompa13

Comment 4 Neal Gompa 2015-10-13 20:41:52 CEST

Confirmed that the update fixes the issue on Mageia 5 x86_64.

Whiteboard: has_procedure MGA5-32-OK advisory => has_procedure MGA5-64-OK MGA5-32-OK advisory

Comment 5 claire robinson 2015-10-14 00:10:13 CEST

Well done Neal. Validating.

Please push to 5 updates

Thanks

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Comment 6 Mageia Robot 2015-10-14 00:41:12 CEST

An update for this issue has been pushed to Mageia Updates repository.

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2015-0154.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2015-10-14 10:43:47 CEST

(In reply to David Walser from comment #2)
> Note to Thierry, if you read:
> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-June/002616.html
> 
> It sounds like we can drop this package in Cauldron and change the installer
> and drakx11 to use something else (not sure what, evdev?) as the mouse
> driver and the kernel will handle things.

Yep, I'm aware since 4.1RC[12].
I'd updated the vmware driver as soon as possible in cauldron for that.
I didn't though about that when Thomas pushed 4.1 as an update though...

Yes, now, I should drop the vmmouse driver from the installer.

Comment 8 Thierry Vignaud 2015-10-14 10:46:20 CEST

Too bad they don't do the same for virtualbox though (less need for guest additions... at least there would be mouse integration by default).
Now, vmware & libvirt are ahead of vbox for this...