[Spice-devel] Announcing spice-xpi 2.5

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 06/10/2011 12:27 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Peter,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I am glad to announce the first public free open source software release
>> of the spice-xpi. To download the source tarballs, visit the page
>> http://www.spice-space.org/download.html
>
> The description of spice-xpi on that page says:
>
> "Spice-XPI plugin for mozilla plugin compatible browsers. This is used for launching the spice client from the RHEV-M user portal."
>
> I would assume that the URL one clicks on in the RHEV-M user portal contains the same basic info that spicec would use to connect to a remote KVM VM via SPICE... host, port, password, and cert?  If so, is there some documentation somewhere that specifies how one constructs the URL?  I don't currently have access to RHEV for Desktops to see what the URLs look like.
>
> I know the source code to spice-xpi is the ultimate documentation... and I looked at the contents of the .tar.gz file... for the various documentation that might be included with the source.  I didn't find much info... and I'm not programmer-ish enough to look directly at the source to piece the info together.
>

I'm afraid that I'm not familiar enough with the exact usage to answer
this thoroughly. How the plugin basically works is
that you embed it, then through js on the object you
set a number of properties (which can include ssl certs)
and then you tell it to connect, and it will then
start the spice-client (currently it uses spicec not one
of the spice-gtk based clients) and pass in all needed /
provided info.

Perhaps someone else can provide a more thorough answer ...

If someone figures this out on his own, please write a short
text about this, so we can include it with the next release
of the XPI and put it on the wiki.

Thanks & Regards,

Hans