[Spice-devel] spice-xpi deprecated soon

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 5:16 PM, RK RK <kanagaraj.rk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Christophe, I am using oVirt 3.6.3 in my production
> environment with 250 Virtual Desktops accessed from within the office
> premises.
>
> Our users will have thin client devices running trimmed down version of
> CentOS 7 with spice-xpi installed via yum.
>
> Please let me know if you need more details on this.
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:36:21AM +0530, RK RK wrote:
>> > Hi Team,
>> >
>> > I have seen in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Spice
>> > that xpi-activex (Browser plugins (to be deprecated)).
>>
>> I cannot find the "to be deprecated" that you mention by looking
>> at this page, or at the bug list ;)
>>
>> >
>> > Does it mean that spice-xpi (Provided via yum in fedora and centos) will
>> > be
>> > deprecated and not supported in future releases? If so, then what will
>> > be
>> > drop in replacement for spice-xpi?
>>
>> However, I think firefox is going to drop support for npapi plugins
>> sooner rather than later, and activex plugins are more and more
>> restricted in Windows land, so I would not be surprised if they stopped
>> working at some point. I think spice-xpi could be rewritten as a
>> firefox extension or something like that, but I've never looked into it.
>>
>> Nowadays, oVirt uses .vv files rather than browser plugins to start
>> remote-viewer.

This was changed in 3.6, see [1]. It only changed the default for new
installations. Existing ones kept what they had during upgrade. You can
change the default using 'engine-config'.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083523

>>
>> Can you give more details about your setup and your use of spice-xpi?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Christophe
>
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