I've never seen that problem using Qemu in the same machine where I run
the x server. But I've had the problems you describe through Tightvnc.

Paul Lalonde wrote:
> Ack - sounds like a bad interaction with synergy, which I use to share
> my mouse and keyboard across from my mac.
> And sure enough - I just plugged in a mouse to that machine, and it
> works fine.  I'll ask the Qemu folks how to make it work with Synergy.
> 
> Thanks,
>     Paul
> 
> On 11-Oct-06, at 10:26 AM, Bakul Shah wrote:
> 
>>>> Does anyone have experience running rio under qemu?  My cursor is
>>>> hooped - I can see its left-most pixels running on the edge of my
>>>> screen, and bring up rio menus there, but I can't get it to the
>>>> middle of my window.
>>>>
>>>> Hints?
>>>
>>> You are likely running into a mouse emulation bug where the
>>> cursor can't go past an invisible wall.  A work around is to
>>> slide the cursor in the waaay over in the opposite direction.
>>> AFAIK this is fixed in a later version of qemu.  or atleast
>>> it is fixed in 0.8.2 on freebsd.
>