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From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Subject: Re: KVM usability
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:21:18 +0000
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Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:59 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > 
> > Defaulting usb to on and defaulting to a usb tablet is a reasonable 
> > thing to do IMHO.
> 
> \o/  Definitely a better user experience.

I remember about a year ago, someone asserting on the list that -usbdevice
tablet was very CPU intensive even when not in use, and should be avoided if
mouse support wasn't needed, e.g. on non-graphical VMs. Was that actually a
significant hit, and is it still true today?

Cheers,

Chris.