Archive xf86-input-vmmouse. With kernel version 5.1 or later, having the VMMouse driver installed on a VMWare or Qemu system will result in crashes because the work was completed to make this obsolete input driver useless. VMWare ported the VMMouse protocol to use the standard PS/2 subsystem in EVDEV and/or Libinput, so it will work with any VM with either xf86-input-evdev or xf86-input-libinput.

This package has been obsolete for a while, but now causes problems, so let's remove it.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21610 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

archive/x7driver-vmmouse.xml

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 
       &lfs84_checked;
       <!-- I used this with both VMWare and QEMU. -->
+      <!-- with Kernel 5.1, this package is now obsolete and will cause X to crash.-->
 
       <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Package Information</bridgehead>
       <itemizedlist spacing="compact">

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>May 19th, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Archive xf86-input-vmmouse. With kernel 5.1 and
+          later, VMWare made this driver obsolete by mapping VMMouse's
+          events into the evdev subsystem. Therefore,
+          xf86-input-evdev now works with it and this package can be archived.
+          Installing it on a VMWare or Qemu system with 5.1+ will cause
+          instability and other problems.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Update details of Intel microcode. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12061">#12061</ulink>.</para>

x/installing/x7driver.xml

@@ -92,11 +92,17 @@
             <xref linkend="xorg-synaptics-driver"/>
           </para>
         </listitem>
+        <!-- With Kernel 5.1, VMMouse is now entirely unusable/obsolete.
+        VMWare has a replacement in the kernel that works for both Qemu and
+        VMWare, that allows the VMMouse instruction set to run through
+        EVDEV events.
+        I archived it on 2019-05-19 as a result. - renodr
         <listitem>
           <para>
             <xref linkend="xorg-vmmouse-driver"/>
           </para>
         </listitem>
+        -->
         <listitem>
           <para>
             <xref linkend="xorg-wacom-driver"/>
@@ -184,8 +190,8 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="x7driver-synaptics.xml"/>
 
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
-    href="x7driver-vmmouse.xml"/>
+ <!--  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+    href="x7driver-vmmouse.xml"/> -->
 
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="x7driver-wacom.xml"/>