[Spice-devel] [ovirt-users] Accessing VM over WAN

[David Jaša]

On Ne, 2016-06-26 at 09:36 +0530, RK RK wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am planning to deploy oVirt 4.0.0 in a production environment where
> initially it will host 150 VDIs and will expand by 20 to 25 in
> subsequent years with Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.
> 

Please note that official win8+ qxl driver is not ready yet so you won't
have continuous resolution change (just in steps of well-known
resolutions), multi monitor support and some video performance
optimizations with those OSs

> 
> Users will be accessing these VDIs from their android tab or any tiny
> thin client devices which will have only very small footprint OS with
> HTML5 supported browser. 
> 

Please consider use of native apps: aSpice/Opaque [1] or "flexVDI
Client" [2] or moVirt [3]. Opaque and moVirt give you oVirt integration
right away, flexVDI has iOS support

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Iordan%20Iordanov%20%28Undatech%29
[2] https://github.com/flexVDI/launcher-mobile
[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ovirt.mobile.movirt

All of them are going to have better UX than spice-html5. FlexVDI also
developed their own html5 client (available at their github as well)
with some stuff better and some worse than spice-html5 client.

> I wish to give users to access the VDIs over WAN(from their home or on
> travel). Is it possible to access the VDIs via spice-html5 over the
> WAN.
> 

IIRC spice-html5 supports all the compression types so protocol-side
optimizations should be available automatically and without issues.

The "WAN options" of user portal mean that agent disables "fancy" bits
of Windows graphics, the only support from client is to do the setting
when establishing connection. You could give it a try

> 
> Any special configurations to be made to enable it? How should I make
> spice-html5 as the default protocol to access the VDIs?

set ClientModeSpiceDefault engine-config variable to Html5 (as per
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311408 )

HTH,

David

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> RK,
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