[Users] Configure spice plugin for wan

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/03/2013 00:53, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>
>>
>> the important part is the name of the installed app under application list.
>> user portal will only see it if you have the guest agent installed (which
>> you can validate by checking what you see under the webadmin, standing on
>> the VM, looking at the application list).
>>
>> for name of config value:
>> engine-config -g SpiceDriverNameInGuest
>>
>
>
> I begin to think something essential for this is missing in oVirt.
>  From when I started testing oVirt, I never found anything in
> applications part of details pane for a VM.
> This in VMs with Windows XP, Windows 7 and Linux too (tried Fedora and CentOS).
> See this image for this windows xp.
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvWHF6WDgtMEF5Wms/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Possibly the free agent is not capable to get the list of applications
> installed and pass to webadmin gui....
> Or there is another component to install/enable that is not inside the
> spice-guest-tools-0.3.exe...
>
> And also, in my engine that is 3.2 stable from f18 ovirt repo I don't
> have this kind of key at all...
>
> [root at tekkaman ~]# engine-config -g SpiceDriverNameInGuest
> Error fetching SpiceDriverNameInGuest value: no such entry. Please
> verify key name and property file support.
>
> The available ones are here:
>
> [root at tekkaman ~]# engine-config -l | grep -i spice
> WANDisableEffects: "Disabled WAN Effects value to send to the SPICE
> console" (Value Type: StringMultiple)
> WANColorDepth: "WAN Color Depth value to send to the SPICE console"
> (Value Type: Integer)
> EnableSpiceRootCertificateValidation: "Enable Spice Root Certification
> Validation" (Value Type: String)
> SpiceReleaseCursorKeys: "Keyboard keys combination that causes the
> mouse cursor to be released from its grab on SPICE" (Value Type:
> String)
> SpiceSecureChannels: "SPICE Secure Channels" (Value Type: StringMultiple)
> SpiceToggleFullScreenKeys: "Keyboard keys combination that toggles the
> full-screen state of SPICE client window" (Value Type: String)
> SpiceUsbAutoShare: "Enable USB devices sharing by default in SPICE"
> (Value Type: String)
> SSLEnabled: "SPICE SSL Enabled" (Value Type: String)
>
> [root at tekkaman ~]# engine-config -a | grep -i spice
> EnableSpiceRootCertificateValidation: true version: general
> SpiceReleaseCursorKeys: shift+f12 version: general
> SpiceSecureChannels: smain,sinputs version: 3.0
> SpiceSecureChannels:
> smain,sinputs,scursor,splayback,srecord,sdisplay,susbredir,ssmartcard
> version: 3.1
> SpiceSecureChannels:
> smain,sinputs,scursor,splayback,srecord,sdisplay,susbredir,ssmartcard
> version: 3.2
> SpiceToggleFullScreenKeys: shift+f11 version: general
> SpiceUsbAutoShare: true version: general
>
>
> So the question is if I can add this key you referred and in that case
> then how to get list of applications transmitted to web admin gui.
>
> Thanks for your time Itamar.
>
> Gianluca
>

1. ok, the config key isn't user editable, not an issue.
2. for ovirt to see list of applications, you need to have the 
ovirt-guest-agent installed as well, not just the spice one.