Bug 1324885

Summary:	[RFE] remove the plugin support for spice connection (remove spicex-win and CAB support)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Uri Lublin <uril>
Component:	rhevm-spice-client	Assignee:	Uri Lublin <uril>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	SPICE QE bug list <spice-qe-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	4.0.0	CC:	bgraveno, cfergeau, dblechte, gklein, lbopf, lsurette, mavital, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, mlibra, rbalakri, sherold, srevivo, tjelinek, tpelka
Target Milestone:	ovirt-4.0.0-beta	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	4.0.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	rhevm-spice-client-4.0-1	Doc Type:	Deprecated Functionality
Doc Text:	The Spice Internet Explorer plug-in is not supported in Red Hat Virtualization 4.0. The 'Native' spice connection is suggested as a replacement. Installation on the client machine is done via MSI installers, and will not be available via CAB files. It is recommended that users of the Spice plug-in uninstall the virt-viewer and the Spice Internet Explorer plug-in before installing via MSI.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1316560	Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-08-23 20:54:56 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	Spice	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1316560
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Description Uri Lublin 2016-04-07 13:44:03 UTC

This bug takes care of removing rhevm-spice-client-*-cab* RPMs in RHEV-M 4.0
Only rhevm-spice-client-*-msi*  RPMs are to be provided.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1316560 +++

Description of problem:
WE have introduced the native connection and the plan was to remove plugin support. It is a time finally to remove the support of xpi and activex 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Expected results:
1. Remove "Browser plugin" option from the RHEVM UI
2. Remove the activex from the windows spice client builds

Additional info:

--- Additional comment from Michal Skrivanek on 2016-03-21 06:18:59 EDT ---

the existing plugin users would be migrated to "native"

Comment 4 Yaniv Lavi 2016-05-09 11:03:15 UTC

oVirt 4.0 Alpha has been released, moving to oVirt 4.0 Beta target.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-23 20:54:56 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/RHEA-2016-1681.html