[Users] Configure spice plugin for wan

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Wed Feb 27 14:03:04 UTC 2013


On 27/02/2013 15:19, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>
>>
>>      userportal: spice client properties
>>
>>      Added the "Enable WAN Options" checkbox to the
>>      edit console popup. It is visible, when all of
>>      the following conditions are met:
>>      - the selected VM is a windows VM
>>      - the spice is available
>>      - the spice radio button is selected
>>      - the spice guest agent is installed on the VM
>>
>>      If the above conditions are met, and the checkbox is
>>      checked, the "WANDisableEffects" and "WANColorDepth"
>>      from the vdc_options table are set to the spice plugin
>>      as the "DisableEffects" and "ColorDepth" properties.
>>
>>      In other case, nothing is set to the "DisableEffects"
>>      and "ColorDepth" properties.
>>
>
> In my case
>
>>      - the selected VM is a windows VM --> OK
>>      - the spice is available --> OK
>>      - the spice radio button is selected --> OK
>
>>      - the spice guest agent is installed on the VM
> here on oVirt we don't have the proprietary spice guest agent but
> spice-guest-tools-0.3.exe that install several things and also spice
> guest agent
> (cut and paste works for example)
> Can we say OK also to the latest point or do I need anything only
> present in proprietary agent package?
> In the first case it is a sort of bug (for example the check for agent
> needs to be changed...?), in the second one ok, I have understood the
> reason.
>
> Thanks,
> Gianluca


this should work for ovirt as well, the check is only that there is no 
driver:
>           // If it is not windows or SPICE guest agent is not installed, make sure the WAN options are disabled.
>            if (!getEntity().getvm_os().isWindows() || getEntity().getSpiceDriverVersion() == null) {
>                getspice().setIsWanOptionsEnabled(false);
>            }

and the driver name is based on ConfigValues.SpiceDriverNameInGuest, so 
please check the value you have there and compare to the name in the guest.


>     public static void UpdateVmGuestAgentVersion(final VM vm) {
>         if (vm.getAppList() != null) {
>             final String[] parts = vm.getAppList().split("[,]", -1);
>             if (parts != null && parts.length != 0) {
>                 final String agentAppName = Config.<String> GetValue(ConfigValues.AgentAppName);
>                 final Map<String, String> spiceDriversInGuest =
>                         Config.<Map<String, String>> GetValue(ConfigValues.SpiceDriverNameInGuest);
>                 final String spiceDriverInGuest =
>                         spiceDriversInGuest.get(ObjectUtils.toString(vm.getOs().getOsType()).toLowerCase());
>
>                 for (final String part : parts) {
>                     if (StringUtils.containsIgnoreCase(part, agentAppName)) {
>                         vm.setGuestAgentVersion(GetApplicationVersion(part,
>                                 agentAppName));
>                     }
>                     if (StringUtils.containsIgnoreCase(part,
>                             spiceDriverInGuest)) {
>                         vm.setSpiceDriverVersion(GetApplicationVersion(part,
>                                 spiceDriverInGuest));
>                     }
>                 }
>             }





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