News from the field
My friend Pixy, a Web backend guy, news. The good news: we’ve become much better at running virtualized. The bad news: Pixy rejects Xen and KVM and continues with VMWare.
After installing Fedora 8, the mouse pointer automatically tracked between Windows and Linux even without installing VMWare tools (a good thing, because I haven’t been able to install VMWare tools). And the clock problems that made standard Linux 2.6 builds all but useless under VMWare have completely disappeared.
This must be Dan Berrange’s work on the mouse (and someone in X land). I’m uncertain if my patches were ever used, and in any case I only delivered the absolute events to the input framework. Someone else made evdev not to crash as much and also had it configured in F8 by default.