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

[Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)]

To expound:

The spice console used in both the case of RHEV or ovirt:

--> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHEV/
<http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHEV/> 

--> SRPMS/rhevm-spice-client-3.0-21.el6.src.rpm

 

We rebuild the above rpm and extract the browser plugins (CABs) and
place them into:

"/usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/userportal.war/org.ovirt.engine.ui.u
serportal.UserPortal"

 

For the ActiveX plugins (MSI)

For now we extract and place them into
"/usr/share/ovirt-engine/resources/jboss/ROOT.war"

We then modify the ovirt engine_index.html with links to install them.

Note if you do this however, due to some mime type idiosyncrasies with
Internet Explorer and JBOSS you will have to add:

<mime-mapping>

    <extension>msi</extension>

    <mime-type>application/msi</mime-type>

  </mime-mapping>

to:

"/usr/share/ovirt-engine/resources/jboss/ROOT.war/WEB-INF/web.xml"

 

Regards,

Chris Brown

GE Healthcare Technologies

Compute Systems Architect

 

 

From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf
Of Loomis, Jason (GE Healthcare)
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:27 AM
To: sawan k r; Marian Krcmarik
Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; users at ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [Users] [Spice-devel] spice client support for windows

 

We were able to download the source rpm and build it, then extract the
msi files to manually install spice for windows.

 

Jason

 

From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf
Of sawan k r
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:23 AM
To: Marian Krcmarik
Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; users at ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [Users] [Spice-devel] spice client support for windows

 

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:



----- 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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