<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>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.<br>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. (<a href="http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/spice.cab" target="_blank">http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/spice.cab</a>)<br>
</div>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: <a href="http://spice-space.org/download/gtk/windows/" target="_blank">http://spice-space.org/download/gtk/windows/</a> are also a bit dated and do not include the plugin (SpiceX.dll).<br>
<br></div>Perhaps a plugin deployment page linked from the main ovirt landing page would be a prudent way to deploy the plugin?<br></div><div>In any event a working SPICE Plugin for Firefox and newer SPICE Client version under windows would be a very welcome sight indeed.<br>
<br></div><div>I think one of the most frequently asked questions or gripes I see about ovirt is around SPICE console issues and concerns.<br></div><div><br></div>- DHC<br><div><div><div><br>
</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Christophe Fergeau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfergeau@redhat.com" target="_blank">cfergeau@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
Lately I've been hacking on getting the spice-xpi plugin to work on<br>
Windows. This is the Firefox plugin that is used on Linux to implement<br>
the portal SPICE console.<br>
<br>
This work has now been merged upstream (<br>
<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-xpi/" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-xpi/</a> ), and I've pushed a<br>
scratch build using mingw available from<br>
<a href="http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5265107" target="_blank">http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5265107</a> (this will go<br>
away in several days). Copying this dll + its dependencies to the<br>
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins directory are enough to get<br>
a spice-xpi plugin to show up in about:plugins, and to then be able<br>
to start a SPICE client from the spice-xpi test page (<br>
<a href="http://teuf.fedorapeople.org/plugins/test.html" target="_blank">http://teuf.fedorapeople.org/plugins/test.html</a> ).<br>
The dependencies I had to copy are:<br>
<br>
gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe<br>
gspawn-win32-helper.exe<br>
iconv.dll<br>
libffi-6.dll<br>
libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll<br>
libgio-2.0-0.dll<br>
libglib-2.0-0.dll<br>
libgmodule-2.0-0.dll<br>
libgobject-2.0-0.dll<br>
libgthread-2.0-0.dll<br>
libintl-8.dll<br>
libstdc++-6.dll<br>
pthreadGC2.dll<br>
zlib1.dll<br>
<br>
(I picked them from the various mingw-* fedora packages).<br>
<br>
<br>
The reason for this email is that to be usable from oVirt, some portal<br>
changes are needed as it currently only tries to use the spice-xpi plugin<br>
on Linux platforms.<br>
Another fuzzy bit is how to get this plugin to the users' machines...<br>
<br>
<br>
And that's about all I had to say in that email ;) Let me know if that's<br>
useful to oVirt, how you want to integrate this, ...<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Christophe<br>
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