All,
IE is no longer a requirement (a Windows RHEV-M server was actually required in
early 2.x versions of RHEV - a legacy of the Qumranet acquisition) - with RHEV
3.3+ both IE and Firefox (Linux, Windows) both work as the management interface
- the standalone SPICE clients are the way to go as engineering is moving away
from ActiveX support. RHEV includes the SPICE client on the install DVD and the
Windows clients can be found under the installation:
Virt Viewer for 32-bit Windows:
RHEV 3.3 - https://[RHEV-M
address]/ovirt-engine-files/spice/virt-viewer-x86.msi
RHEV 3.4 - https://[RHEV-M
address]/ovirt-engine/services/files/spice/virt-viewer-x86.msi
Virt Viewer for 64-bit Windows:
RHEV 3.3 - https://[RHEV-M
address]/ovirt-engine-files/spice/virt-viewer-x86.msi
RHEV 3.4 - https://[RHEV-M
address]/ovirt-engine/services/files/spice/virt-viewer-x64.msi
I've been able to install the Windows SPICE client as a normal user, without
additional administrative privileges, at my customer's site but I haven't
tested it on other baselines.
As for other clients I've found for home experimentation:
OS X:
http://www.ovirt.org/SPICE_Remote-Viewer_on_OS_X
Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iiordanov.aSPICE&hl=en
With all that being said, KVM is really progressing as a hypervisor - I've done
GPU passthrough with RHEL 7 and there is plenty of work headed forward -
especially in the area of 3D graphics:
My benchmarks using RHEL 7 KVM with Windows 8.1 Guest and nVIDIA Quadro
K2000 (VT-d passthrough):
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/3746572
Intel's work on GPU support:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgyMTE
https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/05/02/intel-graphics-virtualization-update
There are some exciting times ahead for RHEV, and I know there will be growing
pains, but RHEV is only one piece of the puzzle - Openstack, Docker,
CloudForms, RHSS integration has our competitors (VMware, Microsoft, and
others) scrambling to build proprietary vendor-specific solutions to compete
with those technologies - none of them open source. In summary, VMware is easy
solution for the short term, but the vendor lock-in and price and support
contracts can add up especially as the landscape for virtualization and cloud
computing changes...
Anyway, all of the above is just my opinion on things moving forward, hope this
helps somebody.
Regards,
Frank Caviggia
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray V CTR USARMY ARL Shaw (US)" <[email protected]>
To: "SCAP Security Guide" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 2:38:25 PM
Subject: RE: Use of RHEV (UNCLASSIFIED)
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> In RHEV the management requirements are different; you have to use IE
> and Spice. I'm not fond of the former and the latter takes some
> integration.
When did you use RHEV? We're in the early stages of setting it up ourselves,
and have been informed that IE used to be a requirement, but no longer is
(we've been using Firefox from Linux and OS X). It sounds like the product
has improved significantly over the past few years, in general.
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