Bug 1217494

Summary:	[RFE] enable SPICE/QXL support for Windows 8/2012 even without the QXL drivers
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	rhev-integ
Component:	ovirt-engine	Assignee:	jniederm
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Nisim Simsolo <nsimsolo>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	3.5.0	CC:	cfergeau, dblechte, djasa, ecohen, gklein, istein, jniederm, juwu, juzhou, lpeer, lsurette, michal.skrivanek, mzhan, nsimsolo, rbalakri, Rhev-m-bugs, rjones, sherold, tnisan, tpelka, tzheng, xiaodwan, yeylon
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature, ZStream
Target Release:	3.5.3
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:	virt
Fixed In Version:	org.ovirt.engine-root-3.5.3-2	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	With this enhancement, users can connect to Windows 8 and Windows 2012 virtual machines using the SPICE protocol without QXL drivers. Limitations include: no multi-monitoring, graphics is not accelerated, etc.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1211231	Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-06-15 13:28:10 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1211231
Bug Blocks:

Comment 2 Nisim Simsolo 2015-06-07 07:59:27 UTC

- Verified: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Version: 3.5.3-0.2.el6ev
- Verification test case added to virt_console test plan: https://polarion.engineering.redhat.com/polarion/#/project/RHEVM3/wiki/Compute/VIRT_CONSOLE?selection=RHEVM3-9907
Case ID: RHEVM3-11370 Spice support for Windows 8/2012 without QXL drivers

Comment 3 Julie 2015-06-10 04:46:15 UTC

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Comment 4 Julie 2015-06-12 04:55:28 UTC

Thanks Jakub.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-06-15 13:28:10 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1095.html

Comment 7 Julie 2015-06-29 05:37:49 UTC

Hi Jakub,
    Is this supported for RHEV versions prior to 3.5 or only 3.5?

Kind regards,
Julie

Comment 8 jniederm 2015-06-29 12:33:07 UTC

It is supported since 3.5.