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.
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?
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".
David - what would be on the list. I presume wan, mime type support, proxy
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.
(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.
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.
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.