Comment 25 for bug 1323758

I have had this issue happen multiple times on multiple versions of kvm with both ubuntu and cantos. I just the other day tried installing win8.1 again for testing and ran across ruban's post. this happens in win10 as well and I think I had seen it in win7.

I reinstalled another win8 vm from a usb instead of an iso later that day and realized that the mouse was working normally which surprised me. I then manually installed the virtio nic driver. the system still worked normally. I then installed the baloon driver and that make the mouse stop working untill i pulled the flash drive. after changing the power settings the mouse would again start working with the flash drive.

I have always used virt manager for connecting to the servers and spice for the display