[Spice-devel] Accessing Windows 8, 8.1, 10 VMs via SPICE

[Pavel Grunt]

Hi,

On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 03:09 +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.
> 
> 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. 

See http://www.spice-space.org/download.html#other-clients for android clients
> 
> 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.

yes, spice-html5 works well with linux guest, but it has "rendering" problems
with Windows guests. There is also another html5 client https://github.com/eyeos
/spice-web-client
> 
> Any special configurations to be made to enable it? How should I make spice-
> html5 as the default protocol to access the VDIs?

You need to configure websocket proxy, for instructions take a look at:
 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-html5/tree/README
> 
> Does display drivers developed for Windows 8+ OSes which provides seamless GUI
> activity?

I don't know about it...

Pavel