[one-users] SPICE support

[Javier Fontan]

I've added the fix you've proposed in the 'qxl graphics support'
ticket [1] while we review this. I hope we have time to implement some
if not all of these tweaks to the parameters but in case this is not
possible it could be changed in the driver configuration.

The patch is in the git repository [2] in case you want to try it.

Cheers

[1] http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/2485
[2] https://github.com/OpenNebula/one/commit/e95fa8fb7eb2b7e1d5e49da146ecb5eb1589f55b

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Daniel Dehennin
<daniel.dehennin at baby-gnu.org> wrote:
> Javier Fontan <jfontan at opennebula.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>
> Hello,
>
> [...]
>
>> The proposed solution is adding an special raw parameter that is
>> automatically added when SPICE is selected. Another option is having a
>> predefined set of options that can be configured like the number of
>> USBs or the sound card model.
>>
>> I am not used to SPICE and can not set the parameters more used nor
>> understand values like the channel name (is it always the same?).
>>
>> Could you help me selecting which parameters should we add? Do you
>> prefer a RAW like value where to add anything you want?
>
> To use it, I would like to make a selection in some predefined items.
>
> 1. select SPICE graphics, this display a list of predefined items
>
> 2. checkbox "enable vdagent support", if selected: display the channel
>    name with a default to "com.redhat.spice.0" which seems to be the
>    default, at leat on Debian[1]
>
> 3. checkbox "enable guest agent", if selected, the target name must be
>    "org.qemu.guest_agent.0" to communicate with guest agent[2]
>
> 4. checkbox "enable USB ports", if selected: ask the number of ports
>
> 5. checkbox "enable sound", if selected: list card models, with a
>    default selected
>
> For the UI, I'm not sure about the fixed list of checkboxes, maybe some
> kind of list to select items to enable which add a bloc in the
> wizard:
>
> 1. select SPICE graphics
>
> 2. display a list: "Enable <list of items>"
>
> 3. user select one item in the list, for example "vdagent support"
>
> 4. a bloc is added in the wizard:
>    * with the title "vdagent support (X)", the (X) represent a "remove
>      this items"
>    * with an input field labeled "channel name:" and a default value of
>      "com.redhat.spice.0"
>
> 5. the "vdagent support" is removed from the selection list to avoid
>    adding several times the same item
>
> Then, we could be mad and imagine some kind of "RAW wizard creator", to
> let users define their own RAW templates:
>
> - define a type: "KVM"
>
> - define label: "enable USB ports"
>
> - checkbox "require user input", if selected, for each input
>   * define id: "usb_port_numbers"
>   * define label: "number of port"
>   * define type: "integer"
>   * define default: "3"
>
> - define a RAW template (as Jinja template since I don't know ruby ones):
>     <devices>
>        {% for port in usb_port_numbers %}
>         <redirdev bus='usb' type='spicevmc'/>
>        {% endfor %}
>     </devices>
>
> But I'm getting off-topic of the thread ;-)
>
> Regards.
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/spice-vdagent.git;a=blob;f=debian/spice-vdagent.init#l28
>
> [2]  http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementCharChannel
>
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