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Bug 998191

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:	Tim Hildred <thildred>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Jodi Biddle <jbiddle>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	3.4.0	CC:	aberezin, acathrow, bdoran, byount, dblechte, dsirrine, jduncan, juwu, sfolkwil, tmichett, yeylon, zdover
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Target Release:	3.4.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
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Clone Of:	988172	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]
Last Closed:	2014-08-27 01:45:47 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	988172
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Description Tim Hildred 2013-08-18 04:56:33 UTC

+++ 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

Comment 2 Tim Hildred 2013-10-28 00:03:18 UTC

Reassigning to Jodi Biddle (jbiddle) as I am no longer working on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization documentation.

Comment 3 Zac Dover 2013-12-09 05:43:52 UTC

In accordance with Comment 1, I am closing this NOTABUG.

Comment 4 Jodi Biddle 2014-02-12 02:04:56 UTC

Re-opening - related to customer case.

Comment 6 Jodi Biddle 2014-04-11 05:24:44 UTC

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.

Comment 8 Zac Dover 2014-04-13 16:23:54 UTC

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.

Comment 10 Julie 2014-08-27 01:45:47 UTC

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