[virt-tools-list] ANNOUNCE: virt-viewer 0.3.1 release with SPICE that actually works !

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:25:08AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 02:47:27AM +0100, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> > Le Monday 21 February 2011 16:36:17, Daniel P. Berrange a écrit :
> > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 04:15:47PM +0100, Grant Williamson wrote:
> > > > I am running RHEL6 with virt-manager 0.8.6, spice-gtk-0.5, libvirt 0.8.7,
> > > > my WinXP KVM is configured to use qxl and spice server.
> > > > 
> > > > I dowloaded virt-viewer 0.3.0 and compiled against spice-gtk, however I
> > > > am not able to use virt-viewer.
> > > > 
> > > > virsh -c qemu:///system start Windows_XP_Virtual_Client_for_Linux_KVM
> > > > virt-viewer -c qemu:///system ${UUID}
> > > > 
> > > > I get a unknown graphic type for the guest UUID.
> > > > 
> > > > Opening with virt-manager works, am I missing something?
> > > 
> > > Due to an *@%#@#%$*(*%@ irritating mistake, the SPICE support was
> > > broken :-)
> > > 
> > > I have now released virt-viewer version 0.3.1 which actually works.
> > > It is available in the same location as before:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-0.3.1.tar
> > > .gz
> > 
> > When --enable-plugin=yes is used, I get the following build error:
> 
> I should have mentioned in release notes that the plugin is more or
> less unmaintained currently because pretty much every single firefox
> release has broken its build. It needs to be re-written completely
> to somehow avoid depending on firefox headers, perhaps borrowing the
> plugin code from Totem which seems quite reliable

Agreed, and in the meantime it should/can be dropped.  For one thing
it opens up a DoS attack on your browser should you install the
plugin.

If anyone has a good idea about how to write Gtk-using plugins for
Mozilla browsers, then please let us know.  I spent quite a long time
trying different things, there is next-to-no documentation, and
everything I tried failed to work in a variety of different ways.

Rich.

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