spice-xpi is the old method to launch the client, .vv file is newer and better one in general (less error-prone and not affected by browser's phase-outing the plugins). David On Po, 2015-04-06 at 13:31 -0400, Jason Keltz wrote:

Hi.

I'm wondering if someone can explain the benefit to using the spice-xpi plugin to access a console versus using remote-viewer "natively" from the browser, specifically on a RHEL system? In particular, if you have the virt-viewer package installed, and not spice-xpi, and you go to visit a console, then the client downloads the configuration file, /tmp/console.vv, and calls "remote-viewer /tmp/console.vv". On the other hand, if you have spice-xpi installed, it seems that the client doesn't need to download the configuration file first, but calls "remote-viewer --spice-controller". In both cases, it appears to me that the result is the same. However, using spice-xpi, there seems to be an additional 4 seconds delay before I get to the console. The time doesn't really matter. I'm just wondering if there's a benefit to using spice-xpi?

Jason.

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