It seems I posted to soon, after restarting the virtual machine manager
it seems to work fine.

Jonathan

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 11:23 +0100, jonathan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> When I put my mouse over the KVM console window the pointer is
> automatically used by the console, it turns to the white windows
> pointer. I am using the absolute tablet driver. That is ok the problem
> is the keyboard is also grabbed, so when typing in a host window and the
> mouse slips over the console window, i start typing in the console by
> mistake. I have tried changing the option in the virtual machine manager
> "Grab keyboard input" to "Never" instead of "mouse over" but it has no
> effect.
> 
> Incidentally if i use the relative mouse driver, even if the mouse is
> not grabbed, the keyboard is still grabbed when the mouse is over the
> console window. 
> 
> Does anyone know of a solution, or should i report a bug?
> 
> Jonathan