[Users] [Spice-devel] spice client support for windows

[sawan k r]

So there are two ways to connect from windows -
ovirt portals - does require activex plugin (not built)
spice - (not tried/tested ?)  as spice is cross platform (windows and linux)

So I should just go ahead pull the code, compile and try

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Marian Krcmarik <mkrcmari at redhat.com>wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> > To: "sawan k r" <sawanruparel at gmail.com>
> > Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org, users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 4:46:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [Users] spice client support for windows
> >
> > On 03/01/2012 12:44 PM, sawan k r wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was reading on deploying spice on ovirt here -
> > > http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Testing/Spice
> > >
> > > There is specific line there that says -
> > > A Linux client machine with spice client and spice xpi installed
> > > (packages spice-client and spice-xpi in Fedora/RHEL). It's not
> > > possible
> > > to connect to a guest from Windows client through Ovirt yet.
> > >
> > > Is above still valid?
> > > Can I use spice client on windows and connect to guest OS on
> > > KVM-ovirt?
> >
> > you can, but you need to build/get your windows spice client (iirc,
> > spice still doesn't have one available - cc-ing spice-devel)
> If one wants to connect to a guest through Ovirt Portals from Windows
> client, he/she needs activex plugin which is not available.
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