Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 998191
Installation Guide should indicate which features of RHEV that spicec and the RHEL 6.4 version of virt-viewer do not support
Last modified: 2014-11-09 17:29:13 EST
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #988172 +++ 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. --- Additional comment from Tim Hildred on 2013-08-11 22:48:26 EDT --- For the time being, I've added this to the topic: * The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SPICE client (spicec) does not support all of the features present in the latest SPICE client. WAN optimizations, dynamic console resizing, proxying, and mime types are not supported. * The versions of SPICE clients (virt-viewer) prior to the one shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 do not support all of the features present in the latest SPICE client. Proxying is not supported. I believe this covers the original bug report, and all the information gathered so far. I'm going to move this to MODIFIED for now, and change it to ON_QA when I've staged it. I'll also be backporting this to the 3.2 docs when resources allow. --- Additional comment from Alison Young on 2013-08-13 00:29:43 EDT --- Checked in: Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization-Installation_Guide-3.3-en-US-3.3-3 Content is exactly what was asked for. --- Additional comment from Tim Hildred on 2013-08-13 03:30:12 EDT --- 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. --- Additional comment from Alison Young on 2013-08-15 22:40:06 EDT --- Checked in: Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization-Installation_Guide-3.3-en-US-3.3-4 Great thanks Tim, VERIFIED
Reassigning to Jodi Biddle (jbiddle@redhat.com) as I am no longer working on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization documentation.
In accordance with Comment 1, I am closing this NOTABUG.
Re-opening - related to customer case.
The table that Bryan makes frequent use of and would like to see in the documentation is here: http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.3/html-single/Manager_Release_Notes/index.html#SPICE_Features Since there's obvious customer requirement for it, I think it should be included in the docs. It's not for us to make the product look good or bad; our only requirement is to help customers use it.
I have also provided instructions for setting up SPICE Proxy which were referred to in this KCS article https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/425693 It's the circle of life. Here's the article: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972453#c7 This comment, or some future version of it that remains in lockstep with RHEV as it develops, should be included in the Installation Guide until there's a good reason to no longer include it.
Closing this bug as content is available in the current release already. Please file a new bug if you have further feedback. Many thanks, Julie