[ovirt-users] [Spice-devel] Problem with USB redirection

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 02:14:28PM +0200, Uwe Laverenz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Am 25.02.2015 um 09:31 schrieb Christophe Fergeau:
> 
> >>The Windows clients have installed Windows 7 Enterprise gets from Windows
> >>MSDNAA and it is installed in all machines here in our University.
> >>
> >>If you need some other information, please, feel free to ask me.
> >
> >I'm asking about remote-viewer (Windows SPICE client ;). Where did you
> >get it from, and what version is it?
> 
> I see the same problem. The SPICE-Client ist the latest version from here:
> 
> http://virt-manager.org/download/
> 
> It's VirtViewer 2.0.256 for Windows and the problem is, that if you try to
> connect an USB device you only get an info dialog stating "USB redirection
> support not compiled in". This is the same behaviour as in client version
> 1.0256.
> 
> I guess this feature simply doesn't exist in the Windows client (yet)?

Ah this is indeed disabled in the mingw-spice-gtk build used for that
binary:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/mingw-spice-gtk.git/tree/mingw-spice-gtk.spec#n136
(see the --disable-usbredir configure argument)

Christophe
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