From 8b8be51b4fd365ac5983e117be9d28f427a07b68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Hellstrom Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:06:38 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov --- drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig') 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 -- cgit