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

Mon Jan 5 15:17:58 UTC 2015

On Jan 5, 2015, at 13:38 , Tomas Jelinek <tjelinek at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.

(adding Brian properly this time)

I think it makes sense to add it together with something…though maybe more related to SPICE clients. So adding Christophe for his thoughts…

Thanks,
michal

>> 
>> 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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