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

From: "David Jaša" <djasa(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Dead Horse" <deadhorseconsulting(a)gmail.com&gt; Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org, "Christophe Fergeau" <cfergeau(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 12:53:53 PM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] spice-xpi(firefox) plugin for Windows Hi, writing from top of my head so this may not be 100 % accurate: Dead Horse píše v Pá 10. 05. 2013 v 11:38 -0500: > I played a bit with the MIME and browsers. > > When switching between spice/vnc/rdp protocols since the connection > file that comes down is extension ".vv" this is an issue. Once you > have associated a MIME type of ".vv" > > one of the local clients (SPICE or VNC or RDP) the browser now > thinks > that ".vv" files should be used with whatever it was associated > with > only. This is to say should the extension be something different > for > each protocol so each protocol could be used and associated with a > local client? I guess that this exception should apply just for RDP because {virt,remote}-viewer supports both spice and vnc AFAIK. > > > Also I have not yet been able to get RDP to work at all. On windows > 7 > systems under IE 9 is always greyed nor selectable (using latest > master). Using the connection files ".vv" and opening them with > remote-viewer to tight-vnc for example does not work at all. Given ^^^ and that another vnc client would need to add the .vv file format support, I don't think that it's a good idea > I have spice certificates and ssl disabled as well so that cannot > get > in the way. Unlike spice and vnc, rdp server is not provided by qemu but by VM itself, so in order to make it work, engine must learn VM IP address from RHEV Agent (so RHEV Agent service must be up'n'running in the VM) and the VM must be configured to accept incoming RDP connections. Because {virt,remote}-viewer doesn't support RDP (AFAIK) and no other client has support for .vv files, I don't think that they should be generated for rdp connection so if engine indeed generates the files, that sound like a bug for me (for the time being, till {virt,remote}-viewer gains RDP support or some rdp client gets .vv file format support).

David > > > Any quick pointers on actually getting RDP to work or the > connection > files to work with a local remote-viewer or vnc client? > > > - DHC > > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Michal Skrivanek > <michal.skrivanek(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > 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. > > > definitely. > Another alternative planned for 3.3 is SPICE HTML5, it has > lots of limitations, but it's purely browser-based > solution. > > > > > > > I think one of the most frequently asked questions or > > gripes > > I see about ovirt is around SPICE console issues and > > concerns. > > > indeed. And we'll have 3 solutions soon!:-) > > > Thanks, > michal > > > > > > > - DHC > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Christophe Fergeau > > <cfergeau(a)redhat.com&gt; 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Engine-devel mailing list > > Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Engine-devel mailing list > > Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Engine-devel mailing list > Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel -- David Jaša, RHCE SPICE QE based in Brno GPG Key: 22C33E24 Fingerprint: 513A 060B D1B4 2A72 7F0D 0278 B125 CD00 22C3 3E24 _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel