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

[Eyal Edri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> To: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Ryan Wilkinson" <ryanwilk at gmail.com>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>, spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org, "Eyal Edri"
> <eedri at redhat.com>, "Moran Goldboim" <mgoldboi at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:47:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] usb pass-through
> 
> 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?


for master branch yes:

current nightly builds are done for fedora 17/18: http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/rpm/Fedora/{17|18}
and for EL6: http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/rpm/EL/6/


for 3.2.1, we don't have nightly builds, just stable release:
 
http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/stable/rpm/EL/6/noarch/

> 
> >
> >> 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?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>> Users mailing list
> >>>>> Users at ovirt.org
> >>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> 
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