spice-xpi is the old method to launch the client, .vv file is newer and better one in general (less error-prone and not affected by browser's phase-outing the plugins).
David On Po, 2015-04-06 at 13:31 -0400, Jason Keltz wrote: > Hi. > > I'm wondering if someone can explain the benefit to using the spice-xpi > plugin to access a console versus using remote-viewer "natively" from > the browser, specifically on a RHEL system? In particular, if you have > the virt-viewer package installed, and not spice-xpi, and you go to > visit a console, then the client downloads the configuration file, > /tmp/console.vv, and calls "remote-viewer /tmp/console.vv". On the > other hand, if you have spice-xpi installed, it seems that the client > doesn't need to download the configuration file first, but calls > "remote-viewer --spice-controller". In both cases, it appears to me > that the result is the same. However, using spice-xpi, there seems to > be an additional 4 seconds delay before I get to the console. The time > doesn't really matter. I'm just wondering if there's a benefit to using > spice-xpi? > > Jason. > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
