[Spice-devel] [Users] [oVirt 3.1] Spice USB support

[Itamar Heim]

On 10/09/2012 09:55 PM, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Michal Skrivanek
> <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com <mailto:michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 9 Oct 2012, at 15:21, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
>
>>     On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
>>     <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         On 10/08/2012 04:34 PM, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>>             On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Itamar Heim
>>             <iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>>             <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>                 On 10/08/2012 03:29 PM, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>>                     On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Itamar Heim
>>             <iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>>                     <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>
>>                     <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>>             <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>>> wrote:
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>>                          On 10/08/2012 04:29 AM, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>>                              Hi !!
>>
>>                              I have a Windows 7 VM with spice protocol
>>             with usb
>>                     redirection
>>                              enabled
>>                              but I cannot access to e.g. to a pendrive.
>>                              It's already supported this feature ?
>>
>>
>>                          (adding spice-devel)
>>                          please note only the native spice usb mode is
>>             supported
>>                     (legacy is not).
>>                          which client?
>>                          which guest?
>>                          which ovirt version?
>>
>>
>>
>>                     The mode is set yo legacy, I tried to switch to
>>             native but the VM
>>                     doesn't starts, and show the following error: VM
>>             Win7 is down. Exit
>>                     message: internal error Process exited while
>>             reading console log
>>                     output:
>>                     qemu-kvm: -device
>>             piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.____0,addr=0x1.0x2:
>>
>>                     Duplicate ID 'usb' for device .
>>
>>
>>                 legacy isn't relevant to ovirt (its legacy...).
>>                 the native error was already fixed.
>>                 which versions of ovirt engine are you using?
>>
>>
>>             - oVirt version: oVirt Engine Version:3.1.0-3.19.el6
>>
>>
>>
>>                     - client:
>>                     RHEV-Agent 3.0.10
>>                     RHEV-Block 3.0.8
>>                     RHEV-Network 3.0.6
>>                     RHEV-Serial 3.0.5
>>                     RHEV-Spice 3.0.5
>>                     RHEV-Spice-Agent 3.0.4
>>                     RHEV-Tools 3.0.37
>>                     RHEV-USB 3.0.8
>>
>>
>>                 wait, these are rhev, not ovirt?
>>                 (rhev does have legacy usb mode)
>>
>>
>>             I downloaded those package from the Internet, what are the
>>             guest
>>             packages supposed to be installed ?
>>
>>
>>         1. not sure where you downloaded them from - they are not
>>         re-distributable in their binary form afair.
>>
>>         2. these are the guest tools, you would need the client tools
>>         as well, which in legacy mode require some proprietary
>>         3rdparty software (hence it is legacy)
>>
>>         3. i recommend trying the new native mode (i.e, which spice
>>         client supports, open source based).
>>
>>
>>     3. to try the new native mode, I should upgrade oVirt version ?
>     Those RHEV packages should be removed
>     The latest 3.1 should work.
>
>     Thanks,
>     michal
>
>
> OK, is there any "similar" package from oVirt to windows guest ?

spice native usb doesn't need anything in the guest