[Engine-devel] spice-xpi(firefox) plugin for Windows

[Dead Horse]

Nicely done and this would definitely be useful. Nothing is more nauseating
then being forced to use Internet Exploder to interact with an ovirt/KVM
SPICE console under windows.
For the plugin deployment this is definitely a point of pain. At the moment
ovirt users wishing to use the SPICE Activex plugin must use an an dated
version of the SPICE client packaged with the necessary SpiceX.dll. (
http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/spice.cab)
They must also take manual steps to install and deploy the plugin on
ovirt-engine server (this very painful to users). The versions of the SPICE
client also made available to the community here:
http://spice-space.org/download/gtk/windows/ are also a bit dated and do
not include the plugin (SpiceX.dll).

Perhaps a plugin deployment page linked from the main ovirt landing page
would be a prudent way to deploy the plugin?
In any event a working SPICE Plugin for Firefox and newer SPICE Client
version under windows would be a very welcome sight indeed.

I think one of the most frequently asked questions or gripes I see about
ovirt is around SPICE console issues and concerns.

- DHC



On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Lately I've been hacking on getting the spice-xpi plugin to work on
> Windows. This is the Firefox plugin that is used on Linux to implement
> the portal SPICE console.
>
> This work has now been merged upstream (
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-xpi/ ), and I've pushed a
> scratch build using mingw available from
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5265107 (this will go
> away in several days). Copying this dll + its dependencies to the
> C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins directory are enough to get
> a spice-xpi plugin to show up in about:plugins, and to then be able
> to start a SPICE client from the spice-xpi test page (
> http://teuf.fedorapeople.org/plugins/test.html ).
> The dependencies I had to copy are:
>
> gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe
> gspawn-win32-helper.exe
> iconv.dll
> libffi-6.dll
> libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll
> libgio-2.0-0.dll
> libglib-2.0-0.dll
> libgmodule-2.0-0.dll
> libgobject-2.0-0.dll
> libgthread-2.0-0.dll
> libintl-8.dll
> libstdc++-6.dll
> pthreadGC2.dll
> zlib1.dll
>
> (I picked them from the various mingw-* fedora packages).
>
>
> The reason for this email is that to be usable from oVirt, some portal
> changes are needed as it currently only tries to use the spice-xpi plugin
> on Linux platforms.
> Another fuzzy bit is how to get this plugin to the users' machines...
>
>
> And that's about all I had to say in that email ;) Let me know if that's
> useful to oVirt, how you want to integrate this, ...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christophe
>
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