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(a)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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