On 18 Apr 2013, at 17:57, Dead Horse wrote: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).
MIME file SPICE and VNC support is in oVirt master for couple of weeks now. This should work on all browsers with latest remote-viewer client.definitely.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.
Another alternative planned for 3.3 is SPICE HTML5, it has lots of limitations, but it's purely browser-based solution.indeed. And we'll have 3 solutions soon!:-)I think one of the most frequently asked questions or gripes I see about ovirt is around SPICE console issues and concerns.Thanks,michal- DHC
_______________________________________________On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@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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