Bug 1229486

Summary:	Documentation about supported OS for Spice should be more consistent across our guides
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Marina Kalinin <mkalinin>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Julie <juwu>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Tahlia Richardson <trichard>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.5.1	CC:	adahms, dblechte, ecohen, gklein, juwu, lsurette, rbalakri, yeylon
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Target Release:	3.5.4
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Last Closed:	2015-09-06 17:09:41 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Marina Kalinin 2015-06-08 22:58:37 UTC

For my understanding, spice is a supported protocol for Windows Server 2012 and Windows8, but not for Windows server 2012 R2 or Win8.1.
This is based on:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/294843

And so our 3.5 Installation Guide says:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.5/html/Installation_Guide/sect-SPICE_Client.html


However looking here:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.5/html/User_Guide/sect-Explanation_of_Settings_and_Controls_in_the_New_Virtual_Machine_and_Edit_Virtual_Machine_Windows.html#Virtual_Machine_Console_settings_explained
It still says not to use spice for those supported OSs.

Should be fixed and adjusted to the supported OSs in all our guides.

Comment 3 Julie 2015-06-17 04:43:34 UTC

Hi Marina,
   Spice support for Windows 8 and 2012 without QXL drivers is documented in the 3.5.3 Technical Notes already. [1] However, I can add it to the Administration or User Guide as a Tech Preview feature. The docs team has not started on 3.6 content yet. 3.6-specific content will be updated when we enter 3.6 development cycle. 

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.5/html-single/Technical_Notes/index.html#chap-RHBA-20151095_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_Manager_3.5.3
[2] Related RFE bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217494

Comment 7 Andrew Dahms 2015-07-21 01:22:07 UTC

Assigning Tahlia as the QA contact.

Comment 9 Eyal Edri 2015-09-06 17:09:41 UTC

RHEV 3.5.4 Released. closing current release.