[ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] [RFC] oVirt mobile client

Mon Jan 5 12:38:42 UTC 2015

Hi iordan,

sorry for the long response time - it was Christmas... ;)

As I see in the 
https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients/blob/master/eclipse_projects/bVNC/AndroidManifest.xml 
the bVNC already has the support for calling it from outside using the intent mechanism but I don't understand how about aSPICE.
As I understand, aSPICE is based on bVNC but I don't understand how exactly do they relate. Does it use the same Manifest just renamed? What is the mimeType than?
If you could point me to a bit of documentation it would be great.

About calling aSPICE and bVNC from outside using the .vv file - as I understand it is not supported for now, right? For us it does not make too big difference if you support the data using URI or .vv file - even the .vv may be preferred, but we will survive URI as well.

One more question - does aSPICE support spice proxy?

Thank you,
Tomas

----- Original Message -----
> From: "i iordanov" <iiordanov at gmail.com>
> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>, devel at ovirt.org
> Cc: "Sphoorti Joglekar" <sphoorti.joglekar at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 11:19:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] [ovirt-devel] [RFC] oVirt mobile client
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> Thanks for remembering about Opaque. For those who are not familiar
> with the project, it is an oVirt/RHEV graphics console client which
> supports the SPICE protocol so far. It uses libgovirt to connect to
> the oVirt/RHEV API. I also created a separate pure SPICE client
> (called aSPICE) for Android based on libspice.
> 
> It would be nice if I got more feedback from Red Hat developers, but
> you guys are probably as busy as I am :). The app is getting attention
> on Google Play and people are using it successfully for their
> installations, it seems.
> 
> I have plans to add the following features to Opaque, time permitting:
> 
> - Ability to edit default settings, so that people who connect with
> console.vv file will be able to configure Audio, keyboard layout, etc.
> - The ability to allocate VMs from a pool.
> - The ability to control Audio Playback and Recording separately.
> 
> I don't think Opaque needs to get portal-management functionality.
> 
> I was contacted by an intern working on movirt (Sphoorti Joglekar,
> cc-ed), asking whether I would be willing to support a URI Intent
> scheme that movirt can use to launch aSPICE. I think I already have a
> pretty well specified URI scheme that may work for the purpose, so
> we'll see how that goes. I am wondering whether it wouldn't be better
> to launch aSPICE or Opaque with a console.vv file instead, though. I
> guess the developers of movirt will have to consider both options.
> 
> At any rate, Opaque is far from dead. I'm security supporting it, I
> just don't find a lot of time to work on additional features.
> 
> I am cc-ing Brian Proffitt, because at one point we discussed setting
> up Opaque as a sub-project of oVirt. I don't know whether there is any
> interest for that in Red Hat, or any interest at all in supporting
> mobile clients for oVirt/RHEV, etc. It would be nice to hear an
> official stance on the topic.
> 
> Thanks!
> iordan
> 
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:17 AM, David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com> wrote:
> > The app in Google may be half year old but there is a movement in git
> > [1] and the author recently called for testing or comments on
> > spice-devel ML.
> >
> > David
> >
> > [1]
> > https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients/tree/master/eclipse_projects/Opaque
> >
> >
> > On Pá, 2014-10-31 at 07:56 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Yair Zaslavsky <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>         ----- Original Message -----
> >>         > From: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
> >>         > To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>, devel at ovirt.org
> >>         > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 3:49:11 AM
> >>         > Subject: [ovirt-devel] [RFC] oVirt mobile client
> >>         >
> >>         > Hi,
> >>         >
> >>         > The focus of our OPW internship program starting in December
> >>         will be
> >>         > mobile and/or lightweight engine clients -- hopefully
> >>         integrating the
> >>         > new ovirt.js project.
> >>
> >>         +100
> >>
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >>         >
> >>         > I see that there are some already existing mobile clients
> >>         for oVirt.
> >>         > I'm trying to grasp what we have and what the needs are.
> >>
> >>         >
> >>         > That's all I see on the first few pages of google.
> >>         >
> >>
> >>
> >> There was also project from Iordanov about spice/oVirt support on
> >> android..
> >> See:
> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/018434.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Some days ago it seems he go also support international keyboard
> >> layout support:
> >>
> >> "
> >> I finally got some time to back-port the international keyboard layout
> >> support from the Android Ovirt client Opaque into the SPICE client
> >> aSPICE
> >> "
> >>
> >>
> >> I made same preliminary tests at the end of 2013 but I was not able to
> >> connect to oVirt...
> >> I don't know actually how it went ahead... the Google channel seems
> >> stopped since February...
> >>
> >>
> >> Gianluca
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> >
> >
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