[Users] oVirt console plans

Yaniv Kaul ykaul at redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 20:32:05 UTC 2012


On 01/30/2012 10:25 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:20:03PM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>> On 01/30/2012 09:10 PM, André Felício wrote:
>>> There are plans to enable other types of console for oVirt? Access by
>>> VNC or RPD?
>>>
>>> There are many SO (windows) that access by SPICE is a little tricky.
>> What's tricky with Spice? If there's anything we can do to help make
>> Spice easier to use, let us know.
> I had a couple of issues when using spice that I can contribute to the
> discussion:
>
> * The Firefox plugin is not widely available for non-RH Linux distros.
> * I did not find any documentation for creating an optimal Linux guest with
>    spice.  (Windows documentation seems a bit more complete).
> * The QXL device was showing up as a Standard VGA Controller in my Windows XP
>    guest.
> * Without optimizations, spice video and cursor responsiveness seemed much
>    slower than vnc over a compressed SSH tunnel.
>

I warmly suggest involving the Spice team with the above issues, I'm 
sure they'll be happy to help.
Some look like bugs, some configuration, some will indeed require some 
development work.
I know specifically the Spice XPI is getting some attention - it had a 
new version released yesterday.
Y.



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