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-virtuali...
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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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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