[Spice-devel] spice-vdagent on Ovirt 3.1

[Marian Krcmarik]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terrence Wu (吳星輝)" <terrence.wu at mediatek.com>
> To: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 10:39:23 AM
> Subject: [Spice-devel] spice-vdagent on Ovirt 3.1
> 
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> 
> Hi,
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> 
> We’re proceeding on a benchmark for SPICE and other remote access programs.
> We found that SPICE is really cool espacially when the spice-vdagentd is
> working.
> 
> Yet there is something we concern about the data security, spice-vdagentd
> enables the capability to share clipboard data between SPICE client and the
> virtual guestOS. It’s also a useful function but we do not expect to provide
> copy/paste function for text or graphic in certain restrictive cases.
> 
> 
> 
> Is there any way to enable spice-vdagentd without copy/paste bwtween client
> and guest OS?
There is a qemu command line option disable-copy-paste[1] available with libvirt element <clipboard copypaste='no'/>[2] but unfortunately It's not exposed in Ovirt management, but probably could be added with using a vdsm hook[3]. 

[1] man qemu
[2] http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsGraphics
[3] http://wiki.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks

> 
> The performance wih QXL, SPICE, and spice-vdagent is quite excellent, but the
> copy/paste issue is the only constraint.
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> 
> System info:
> 
> Virtual solution: Ovirt 3.1
> 
> Host server OS: CentOS 6.3 (kernel: 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64)
> 
> qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6x86_64
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> spice-server-0.12.0-12.el6x86_64
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> Guest OS: RHEL 5.8 (kernel 2.6.18-308.el5.x86_64)
> 
> spice-vdagent-0.10.1-1.el5
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> Best Regards,
> 
> Terrence
> 
> 
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