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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] RFC: add "spiceport" chardev
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Gerd Hoffmann |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] RFC: add "spiceport" chardev |
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Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:51:58 +0100 |
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Hi,
>> What is the use case? Any reason why the spice client can not (or
>> should not) speak to ovirt directly?
>
> Ah, in fact, it's the main reason why I worked on this. Currently, the
> Spice client has to communicate with ovirt via the browser, which is a pain
> to deal with: it's a completely different route, it needs a running
> browser, a compatible extension (xpi vs activex vs the rest not supported),
> leading to duplicated work, license problems, regular breakage between
> browser versions, hard to test, difficult to upgrade...
Understood.
> Instead, we are
> investigating the use of a configuration file provided by ovirt portal for
> setting up the client, and the dynamic interaction could take place either
> via the propose Spice port, or directly via ovirt.
>
> Some of the dynamic ovirt functionality are interesting for direct clients,
> like the "spice controller menu" (a customizable client UI menu,
> virt-viewer and Boxes could benefit it). It may not be the best solution to
> route the "ovirt/spice controller" through qemu host, but at least I wanted
> to try that option. It could be that in the end, it is prefered that the
> client just talk directly to ovirt, whatever fits best.
I'd go for a direct connection. Going the indirect route via qemu
probably isn't as bad as going indirectly via browser, but still.
Unless there is a very good reason to use qemu as middle man I simply
wouldn't do that.
cheers,
Gerd
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] RFC: add "spiceport" chardev, Marc-André Lureau, 2012/11/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] qemu-char: add qemu_chr_remove_clients(), Marc-André Lureau, 2012/11/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] spice-qemu-char: write to chardev whatever amount it can read, Marc-André Lureau, 2012/11/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] spice-qemu-char: factor out CharDriverState creation, Marc-André Lureau, 2012/11/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] spice-qemu-char: add spiceport chardev, Marc-André Lureau, 2012/11/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] spice-qemu-char: keep a list of spice chardev, Marc-André Lureau, 2012/11/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] spice-qemu-char: register spicevmc ports during qemu_spice_init(), Marc-André Lureau, 2012/11/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] RFC: add "spiceport" chardev, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/11/30