[Spice-devel] spice windows client

[Christophe Fergeau]

Hey Scott,

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:36:32AM -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Greetings Joris,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> >  Can someone indicate what I'm doing wrong? Do I need another package
> >  to install? Is there a separate windows installer for LibCelt that is
> >  required? I really hope someone can point me in the right direction.
> 
> I haven't looked to verify but the last time I looked the situation
> hadn't changed... and someone already pointed this out... but whoever
> maintains it didn't fix it.  They removed the library package from the
> website by accident thinking it was old or no longer needed... so so
> anyone who wants to install the Windows client can't.  Thanks free
> software! :)

Yes, my bad, though I think I gave a link to the needed binary when the
issue was raised, I just didn't fix the web page to readd a link to it.
Now this is done.

> Yeah, the packaging for the MS Windows version was horrible but I think
> that was because they want to cross compile it from Linux and use no
> proprietary bits in the process... so no fancy installer.

Actually, the current Windows version is quite outdated and has no fancy
installer *because* it's built using VC++ and this would require someone
with access to a Windows machine, and familiar enough with Windows
development to do the work. Cross-compiling stuff from Linux will make it
easier for us to have regular Windows builds *and* to provide a nicer
installer using NSIS (same kind of installer as the guest drivers). All of
this can even be done on the Fedora infrastructure thanks to all the recent
mingw work over there.

> I think they are working on replacing the previous MS Windows client that
> is based on Crazy Larry's Toolkit (or something like that) and replacing
> it with a full-blown version of virt-manager for Windows along with
> virt-viewer and remote-viewer... which last time I checked where command
> line oriented clients.
> 
> It would be nice to hear what the plans are... AND to get the current
> situation fixed... but it is easy to complain from the audience. :)

The plan is to replace the current client with a client based on spice-gtk
and virt-viewer which is called remote-viewer. It's no longer command-line
only now that https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803777 has been
fixed.

Christophe
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