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

[i iordanov]

Hi Christophe,

They share a part of their code-base, primarily in the native
implementation. However, Opaque has a substantially reimplemented UI.
They both live in the same repository, though, and the plan was to
bring them closer together over time.

I see aSPICE as analogous to spicy and Opaque as analogous to virt-viewer.

Cheers,
iordan

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 04:17:58PM +0100, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
>>
>> > 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…
>
> Opaque seems to be more an oVirt client than a SPICE client, so I'd tend
> to think it would be a better fit as an oVirt project. aSPICE would fit
> well together with other SPICE repositories, dunno if these are the same
> code base or not (?).
>
>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 13:38 , Tomas Jelinek <tjelinek at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > One more question - does aSPICE support spice proxy?
>> >
>
> libgovirt is not parsing the proxy information at this point, so answer
> would be no. See
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2014-December/018475.html
> and its followup
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-January/018609.html
>
> Christophe



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