On 06/19/2013 08:03 AM, Leonardo Augusto Guimarães Garcia wrote: > Hey, > > I am interested in having USB redirection working through spice in > virt-manager console viewer, just as we have in virt-viewer today. > > Anyone ever touched this? Is this something that should be accepted by the > virt-tools community? Any pointers on how this should be implemented? I know > almost nothing about spice protocol right now and I was not able to figure out > much from the virt-viewer code (seems that most part is implemented in > spice-gtk). > I'd very much like to support this in virt-manager. Hans suggestion of looking at the virt-viewer code is the way to go. > BTW, I was wondering: it seems that virt-viewer and virt-manager console > viewer shares lots of features, although they have a completely different code > base. Any thoughts on making them share the same application with different > python wrapper scripts? I know this is a big change for virt-viewer, as it is > not written in python, but I was wondering about what virt-viewer has today > that is not available in the virt-manager console viewer and couldn't think of > much (probably by lack of experience from my part). > There's a lot of reasons, but the main ones nowadays are that 1) virt-viewer is also remote-viewer which is virt independent, making much of the virt-manager UI not apply, and 2) remote-viewer is meant to be multiplatform, virt-manager would need some work to get there and deployment would likely be harder since it's python. As for features, the big ones I can think of are USB redirection, multihead, and likely some other spice features since the spice guys keep virt-viewer up to date. But all in all nothing too drastic. - Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
