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    ui: add an embedded Barrier client · 6105683d
    Laurent Vivier authored
    This allows to receive mouse and keyboard events from
    a Barrier server.
    
    This is enabled by adding the following parameter on the
    command line
    
        ... -object input-barrier,id=$id,name=$name ...
    
    Where $name is the name declared in the screens section of barrier.conf
    
    The barrier server (barriers) must be configured and must run on the
    local host.
    
    For instance:
    
      section: screens
          localhost:
              ...
          VM-1:
              ...
          end
    
      section: links
          localhost:
              right = VM-1
          VM-1:
              left = localhost
      end
    
    Then on the QEMU command line:
    
        ... -object input-barrier,id=barrie0,name=VM-1 ...
    
    When the mouse will move out of the screen of the local host on
    the right, the mouse and the keyboard will be grabbed and all
    related events will be send to the guest OS.
    
    This is usefull when qemu is configured without emulated graphic card
    but with a VFIO attached graphic card.
    
    More information about Barrier can be found at:
    
      https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
    
    
    
    This avoids to install the Barrier server in the guest OS,
    for instance when it is not supported or during the installation.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLaurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
    Message-id: 20190906083812.29487-1-laurent@vivier.eu
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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    ui: add an embedded Barrier client
    Laurent Vivier authored
    This allows to receive mouse and keyboard events from
    a Barrier server.
    
    This is enabled by adding the following parameter on the
    command line
    
        ... -object input-barrier,id=$id,name=$name ...
    
    Where $name is the name declared in the screens section of barrier.conf
    
    The barrier server (barriers) must be configured and must run on the
    local host.
    
    For instance:
    
      section: screens
          localhost:
              ...
          VM-1:
              ...
          end
    
      section: links
          localhost:
              right = VM-1
          VM-1:
              left = localhost
      end
    
    Then on the QEMU command line:
    
        ... -object input-barrier,id=barrie0,name=VM-1 ...
    
    When the mouse will move out of the screen of the local host on
    the right, the mouse and the keyboard will be grabbed and all
    related events will be send to the guest OS.
    
    This is usefull when qemu is configured without emulated graphic card
    but with a VFIO attached graphic card.
    
    More information about Barrier can be found at:
    
      https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
    
    
    
    This avoids to install the Barrier server in the guest OS,
    for instance when it is not supported or during the installation.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLaurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
    Message-id: 20190906083812.29487-1-laurent@vivier.eu
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>