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Bug 988172

Summary:	Installation Guide should indicate which features of RHEV that spicec and the RHEL 6.4 version of virt-viewer do not support
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Bryan Yount <byount>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Tim Hildred <thildred>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Priority:	high
Version:	3.3.0	CC:	acathrow, alyoung, bdoran, byount, dblechte, dsirrine, jduncan, lbopf, tmichett, yeylon
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Clones:	998191 (view as bug list)		Environment:	Build: CSProcessor Builder Version 1.10 Build Name: 12875, Installation Guide-3.2-6 Build Date: 20-06-2013 11:28:46 Topic ID: 7848-429866 [Latest]
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Description Bryan Yount 2013-07-25 00:59:07 UTC

Title: 2.3.2. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Client Requirements

Describe the issue:
The RHEL 5 client (spicec) is listed as a supported client but it does not support certain features such as Spice proxy and the WAN optimizations.

Suggestions for improvement:
Add an indicator to the spicec entry that not all features of 3.1/3.2 are supported. Perhaps include a note about what doesn't work.

Comment 2 Tim Hildred 2013-07-29 05:37:48 UTC

Hey Bryan,

Can you provide a list of unsupported features in the RHEL 5 spicec client?

- spice proxy
- wan optimizations
- ??

Do any of the other clients in that list also have limitations, or are they otherwise offering the same feature set?

Comment 3 Bryan Yount 2013-08-07 00:20:01 UTC

Hey Tim, sorry it took me a few days to get back to you as I was out of the office last week. Bugzilla really needs an Out of Office indicator.

(In reply to Tim Hildred from comment #2)
> Can you provide a list of unsupported features in the RHEL 5 spicec client?
> 
> - spice proxy
> - wan optimizations
> - ??

- Dynamic resolution resizing and scaling

Those were the only 3 things I could think of. We may need to ask Andy to verify that for us. Setting needinfo on him.

> Do any of the other clients in that list also have limitations, or are they
> otherwise offering the same feature set?

I believe RHEL 5 is the exception because it's the only OS on that list that is still stuck with "spicec" instead of "virt-viewer".

Comment 4 Andrew Cathrow 2013-08-07 23:54:03 UTC

David - what would be on the list.
I presume

wan, mime type support, proxy

Comment 6 Tim Hildred 2013-08-09 05:01:00 UTC

Hey Bryan,

That changes things a bit. The simplest way for me to understand is:

The RHEL 5 SPICE (spicec) client does not support:
- WAN optimizations
- dynamic console resizing
- proxying
- mime types

The RHEL 6.4 SPICE client (virt-viewer) does not support:
- ???


Those features are supported in the following operating systems using the following clients
- Operating System : Client
- ??? : ???

Thanks Bryan.

I've added a note about RHEL 5 that will probably be in the next z stream for 3.2. I'll add more when I hear more, but it may not be backported to 3.2.z in the immediate future.

Comment 7 Bryan Yount 2013-08-09 23:20:45 UTC

(In reply to Tim Hildred from comment #6)
> The RHEL 6.4 SPICE client (virt-viewer) does not support:
> - ???

- proxying

That's the only big feature I know of worth mentioning in the docs. Maybe David can also weigh in here?

> Those features are supported in the following operating systems using the
> following clients
> - Operating System : Client
> - ??? : ???

Not entirely sure how to help fill this list out. But I think you're looking for what operating systems and clients support all of the RHEV 3.2 features? If so, then...

Windows XP : virt-viewer-0.5.3-25 or higher
Windows 7  : virt-viewer-0.5.3-25 or higher

And eventually we'll add RHEL 6.5 to that list. Hope this helps.

Comment 8 Tim Hildred 2013-08-12 02:28:57 UTC

Hey David,

Can you help me fill in the blanks in comment #6? We're trying to get this bug fix backported into the upcoming 3.2.z release.

It looks like the only SPICE clients that support all of the newer RHEV/SPICE features are Windows clients?

For the record, RHEL 6.4 gets virt-viewer-0.5.2-18.el6_4.2.x86_64.

Comment 13 Tim Hildred 2013-08-13 07:30:12 UTC

I've moved the information about which features are supported. Now, the info is in a "note" directly after the client it applies to. Should be much clearer now.