For us, SPICE lets us present VMs in secure networks to unsecure locations.  RDP and VNC will not work for us.  

I didn't want to rant but why Red Hat drops useful features is beyond me.  First Satellite 5 (Spacewalk), GlusterFS, not RHV.  Yep, we've been a RHV customer since RHEV v2.2 days.  SPICE was the compelling feature then and remains so.

My 2 cents

On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 at 03:42, Alex McWhirter <alex@triadic.us> wrote:

It's being removed from RHEL 9, unsure of reasoning.

So this mean that oVirt cannot offer SPICE/QXL on RHEL9, there is no spice package, qemu is compiled without SPICE/QXL support, the kernel does not support QXL video drivers.

It's not that oVirt is killing off SPICE/QXL, but rather RHEL9 is and oVirt cannot support a feature not available on the host OS unless 3rd party packages or a SiG makes them available.


On 2021-12-07 14:14, Patrick Hibbs wrote:

Hello,
 
Can I ask why this is being removed?
 
The linked bugzilla report doesn't give a reason, and at least two others have expressed concerns over SPICE's deprecation.
 
Personally, I would like to know why it's being removed entirely with no recourse instead of becoming an option to enable in the VM config, or an optional RPM that can be installed by the sysadmin.
 
Thanks.
 
On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 09:41 +0200, Arik Hadas wrote:
 

On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 8:33 AM Patrick Hibbs <hibbsncc1701@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
 
Are we to assume that VNC mode is the only thing that will be supported for the VM consoles moving forward then? 
As the pure SPICE mode only works with QXL display as far as I can tell.
 
I ask because the VNC or SPICE+VNC modes haven't worked in my environment for over a year now, and that change
would effectively prevent the use of any VM console in my environment.  (Use of VNC with remote viewer always gives
me an authentication error.) Not that it's a normal environment, but that kind of thing should be advertised more. Just in case
simillar issues exist in other deployments.
 
Yes, one would need to make sure vnc/vga works well before upgrading to the next cluster-level (in oVirt 4.5)
In general it is recommended to test the configuration in the new cluster-level by setting some representative VMs in the environment with a custom compatibility level  and check that they work properly before upgrading to that cluster-level.
 
 
Thanks.
 
On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 22:03 +0200, Arik Hadas wrote:
 

On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 8:45 PM lejeczek via Users <users@ovirt.org> wrote:
 

On 06/12/2021 17:42, lejeczek via Users wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've Qemu/Libvirt from
> ovirt-release-master-4.5.0-0.0.master.20211206152702.gitebb0229.el9.noarch
> and it seems QXL is not there.
> Is that a fluke or intention?
> Do you have QXL working?
>
upss.. pardon me, these are from CentOS 9 Steam own repos
actually.
 
 
Right, and that's the reason for the ongoing work on removing qxl on cluster level 4.7:
 
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