So there are two ways to connect from windows -
ovirt portals - does require activex plugin (not built)
spice - (not tried/tested ?) as spice is cross platform (windows and linux)
So I should just go ahead pull the code, compile and try
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Marian Krcmarik <mkrcmari(a)redhat.com>wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
> To: "sawan k r" <sawanruparel(a)gmail.com>
> Cc: spice-devel(a)lists.freedesktop.org, users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 4:46:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [Users] spice client support for windows
>
> On 03/01/2012 12:44 PM, sawan k r wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was reading on deploying spice on ovirt here -
> >
http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Testing/Spice
> >
> > There is specific line there that says -
> > A Linux client machine with spice client and spice xpi installed
> > (packages spice-client and spice-xpi in Fedora/RHEL). It's not
> > possible
> > to connect to a guest from Windows client through Ovirt yet.
> >
> > Is above still valid?
> > Can I use spice client on windows and connect to guest OS on
> > KVM-ovirt?
>
> you can, but you need to build/get your windows spice client (iirc,
> spice still doesn't have one available - cc-ing spice-devel)
If one wants to connect to a guest through Ovirt Portals from Windows
client, he/she needs activex plugin which is not available.
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