[Spice-devel] [Users] usb pass-through

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/20/2013 09:50 PM, Einav Cohen wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ryan Wilkinson" <ryanwilk at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:58:49 AM
>>
>> Thanks for the response.  Is the master release accessible via a repo.?
>
> from your question I understand that you are currently using ovirt 3.2.1 rather
> than master [to answer Itamar's question from the previous e-mail], and that explains
> the slowness of the portals on IE8 that you are experiencing.
>
> Please note that on oVirt master, the performance improvement patches for IE8 affect
> only the user portal; unfortunately, the admin portal still suffers from performance
> problems on IE8.
>
> with regards to the master release accessibility: I am not sure if we have a master
> release; you can build oVirt-engine directly from the code-repo by following the
> instructions in the following wiki-page: http://www.ovirt.org/Build_and_Install_Engine_RPM
>
> @Itamar/others: do we have some kind of a nightly/weekly/occasionally repository of
> ovirt builds/rpms? the IE8 performance patches were introduced to oVirt master on March 1
> (almost 2 months ago), so anything rebased from ovirt master at that point in time or
> afterwards would be helpful.

yes, there is a nightly build (it changes every night...)
http://www.ovirt.org/Yum_repo_file

set nightly to enabled (maybe need to disable the others).
that's for fedora - I think we have one for .el6 now with 3.2.1 
supporting it.
eyal/moran?

>
>> I've been using Fedora 18.  Is usb pass-through not supported for Windows
>> clients?
>
> as Itamar mentioned below, spice-devel mailing-list members (CC'd) should be able to answer
> this question.
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Einav Cohen <ecohen at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 9:32:39 AM
>>>>
>>>> On 04/20/2013 01:26 AM, Ryan Wilkinson wrote:
>>>>> Does the Windows spice client not support usb pass-through?  Also, is
>>>>> extremely slow with IE 8.  Any advice on speeding the user or admin
>>>>> console up in IE8?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> adding spice-devel for the usb question.
>>>> for the IE8 - some improvements went to master for IE8 performance, but
>>>> i don't think they are in ovirt 3.2.1 (einav?).
>>>
>>> that's right: the recent IE8 improvements are not included in ovirt 3.2.1,
>>> they are only in master.
>>>
>>>> are you using master or 3.2.1?
>>>>
>>>
>>