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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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

Daniel
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