Editing Test Day:2013-05-30 Spice

{{Infobox_group
| name = Fedora Test Days
| image = [[File:Echo-testing-48px.png|link=QA/Fedora_19_test_days]]
| caption = SPICE Test Day
| date = 2013-05-30
| time = all day
| website = [[Features/Spice]]
| irc = [irc://irc.gimp.org/#spice #spice], [irc://irc.freenode.net/#fedora-test-day #fedora-test-day] ([http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-test-day webirc])
| mailing_list = spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
}}

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== What to test? ==

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on '''Spice''', the protocol to access remote VMs and physical linux systems.

=== New features ===

* Much improved multi-monitor support, see [http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/12969.html this blog post] for details
* Xspice: spice server running inside the remote system you're connecting to
* spice-html5: a client running inside the browser
* file transfer: ability to copy file from client system to guest/remote system using drag and drop
* new connection methods for virt-viewer/remote-viewer:
** using .vv files
** connecting to oVirt/RHEV-M VMs using ovirt:// URIs (similar to existing <code>virt-viewer qemu:///...</code> invocation)

=== Existing features ===

* connection to remote VMs
** optional SSL/TLS encryption
** optional password or SASL authentication
* smartcard sharing/remoting
* clipboard sharing for text and image data, working both ways
* client-mode mouse (with smooth transition between guest/remote system and client system and rendered instantly)
* guest/remote system monitor layout
** arbitrary resolution
** multiple monitors
* video remoting
** detection of video stream
** sync of audio with video
* USB redirection
* migration of VM to another host while VM is running and client stays connected


== Who's available ==

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
* Development
** Xspice: Jeremy White (jwhite), Alon Levy (alon/alevy/alonlevy)
** spice-html5: Jeremy White
** file transfer: Hans de Goede (hansg)
** connection using ovirt:// URIs: Christophe Fergeau (teuf)
* Quality Assurance - [[User:Djasa|David Jaša]] (djasa), [[User:Martix|Martin Holec]] (Martix)

== What do I need for testing? ==

=== Live CDs ===

Live CDs with all required packages installed are provided for this test day. Tips on using a live image are available at [[FedoraLiveCD]].
{|
! Architecture !! SHA256SUM 
|- 
| [http://fedorapeople.org/groups/qa/testday-20130530-x86_64.iso x86_64] || c214f3a326221b998be896c59bb5af1718030b3b5ecb85599f77e76309f0cd26
|-
| [http://fedorapeople.org/groups/qa/testday-20130530-i686.iso i686] || da574c08e0469d890a3f33e7638369e8d7f21d9e9bd8e6e506d7d39c5f611856
|}

=== Client ===

'''client''' means client program or client OS and environment. Preferred clients for this test day are:
* <code>virt-viewer</code> or <code>remote-viewer</code> running on top of Fedora 19
* '''spice-html5''' from Fedora package opened on any of the supported browsers:
**
You can also use another clients:
* <code>virt-viewer</code> or <code>remote-viewer</code> run on different OS or version
* '''Gnome Boxes'''
* <code>virt-manager</code>
* '''virt-viewer''' for Windows. Installers are available for download [http://spice-space.org/download.html at project site]. Note that USB redirection won't work for you unless you [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2013-May/013479.html build USBClerk yourself]
Don't bother testing these:
* '''spicy''' is a tool used sometimes for testing of some features. Don't expect it to work smoothly, or even work correctly
* '''spicec''' (found in <code>spice-client</code> package on Fedora) is deprecated client that already didn't see any development for quite long time

=== Host ===

'''host''' is a machine that hosts virtual machines. When client is about to show a VM display, it connects to qemu process running on the host.
* you can reuse the host you used for [[Test_Day:2013-05-28_Virtualization|Virtualization Test Day]]
* if you don't have the virtualization host yet, follow instructions on Virtualization Test Day
* alternatively, you can use any other spice-capable virtualization host

=== Remote system ===

A physical or virtual system running '''Xspice''' server is called a remote system from now on

=== Guest system ===

Virtualized system needs add-on software called '''spice agent''' installed to make all features fully work:
* on Fedora, it is provided by <code>spice-vdagent</code> package, installed by default. It should be running from start, too (one <code>spice-vdagentd</code> process and two <code>spice-vdagent</code> processes - one for login manager and one for user session)
* on Windows, please install Windows Guest Tools from [http://spice-space.org/download.html project download page]

== Quick VM installation ==

=== Gnome Boxes ===

Just start Boxes, create a new VM and follow the guide.

=== virt-install ===

<code>virt-install</code> can configure a VM for you including all the subtleties and even start an installation:
<pre>virt-install -c SESSION --name NAME --memory MEMORY [--cdrom CDROM|--location LOCATION] --os-variant OS [--disk DISKOPTS|--nodisks] --graphics spice --video qxl [--video qxl] --channel spicevmc --redirdev usb,type=spicevmc [--redirdev usb,type=spicevmc] </pre>
where:
* local '''SESSION''' is <code>qemu:///system</code> for system-wide session of <code>qemu:///session</code> for actual user session (this is what Boxes uses). Refer to [http://libvirt.org/remote.html libvirt documentation] if you wish to install VM on a different hypervisor
* '''NAME''' is VM name
* '''MEMORY''' is memory size in MB
* a VM can be installed either from '''CDROM''' or, for some distributions, '''LOCATION''' pointing to installation tree is supported
* '''OS''' is one of options returned by <code>virt-install --os-variant list</code>. It allows <code>virt-install</code> to better optimize the VM setup
* specify '''--nodisks''' for VMs running from live media. '''DISKOPTS''' is a comma-separated list of keys. For file-backed VM disk, you should be fine to specify just <code>path=path/to/file,size=size_in_GB</code>. If you wish to stick with gnome-boxes default VM image location, specify <code>path=~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images/</code>
* specify up to four <code>--video qxl</code> stanzas in order to support multiple monitor on Windows VMs
* number of <code>--redirdev usb,type=spicevmc</code> stanzas limits number of USB devices that can be redirected to the guest OS
<code>virt-install</code> sets up the VM and starts installation. The installation itself is not automatic though.

== Test Cases ==

=== New features ===

* [[QA:Testcase_Spice_file_transfer | Drag and drop file transfer]]
* [[QA:Testcase_Spice_Xspice | Test XSpice]]
* [[QA:Testcase_Spice_html5 | Test use a pure Javascript Spice client]]
* [[QA:Testcase_Spice_virt-viewer_direct_connection_to_oVirt | Direct connection to oVirt/RHEV VMs]]

=== Existing features ===

* migration

== Test Results ==

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to [https://bugzilla.redhat.com Bugzilla] using this key:
* use '''[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=19&component=spice-gtk spice-gtk]''' component for issues happening on client side 
* use '''[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=19&component=spice-server spice-server]''' component for issues happening on virtualization host
* use '''[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=19&component=spice-vdagent spice-vdagent]''' component for guest agent issues
* use '''[https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Spice Freedesktop bugzilla]''' to report issues in spice components used in other distributions
* please specify complete environment: client OS and architecture, client (virt-viewer or spice-html5) version, host OS with qemu-kvm and spice-server versions, guest OS version, guest agent version

If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC (<code>#spice</code> at irc.gimp.org) and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one. Please specify your environment in second column as i is in the template For each test case, use the [[Template:result|result template]] to enter your result, as shown in the example result line.

{|
! User
! Test environment
! [[QA:Testcase_Spice_file_transfer|Drag and drop file transfer]]
! [[QA:Testcase_Spice_Xspice | Test XSpice]]
! [[QA:Testcase_Spice_html5 | Test use a pure Javascript Spice client]]
! [[QA:Testcase_Spice_virt-viewer_direct_connection_to_oVirt | Direct connection to oVirt/RHEV VMs]]
! References
|-
| [[User:SampleUser|Sample User]]
|
* Client: F19, virt-viewer-0.5.6-1.fc19.x86_64
* Host: F19, qemu-kvm-1.4.1-3.fc19.x86_64, spice-server-0.12.2-5.fc19.x86_64
* Guest: F19 with Gnome 3, spice-vdagent-0.14.0-2.fc19.x86_64
| {{result|none}} 
| {{result|pass}}
| {{result|warn}} <ref>Test pass, but also encountered {{bz|54321}}</ref>
| {{result|fail}} <ref>{{bz|12345}}</ref>
| <references/>
|-
| [[User:tassadar|tassadar]]
|
* Client: F19, virt-viewer-0.5.6-1.fc19.x86_64
* Host: F19, qemu-kvm-1.4.2-2.fc19.x86_64, spice-server-0.12.3-1.fc19.x86_64
* Guest: F19 with Gnome 3, spice-vdagent-0.14.0-2.fc19.x86_64
| {{result|pass}} 
| {{result|pass}}
| {{result|warn}} <ref>It works, but {{bz|968931}}</ref> 
| {{result|info}} <ref>Don't have access to these</ref>
| <references/>
|-
| [[User:mkovarik|mkovarik]]
|
* Client: F19, virt-viewer-0.5.6-1.fc19.x86_64
* Host: F19, qemu-kvm-1.4.2-2.fc19.x86_64, spice-server-0.12.3-1.fc19.x86_64
* Guest: F19 with Gnome 3, spice-vdagent-0.14.0-2.fc19.x86_64
| {{result|pass}} 
| {{result|pass}}
| {{result|pass}} 
| {{result|none}} 
| <references/>
|-
| [[User:jkoten|jkoten]]
|
* Client: F19, virt-viewer-0.5.6-1.fc19.x86_64, gnome-boxes-3.8.3-1.fc19.x86_64
* Host: RHEV-M 3.1
* Guest: Rhel7 Alpha3, spice-vdagent-0.12.1-1.el7.x86_64
| {{result|none}} 
| {{result|pass}} <ref>Tested on localhost</ref>
| {{result|none}} 
| {{result|fail}} <ref>Boxes crash on gnome session start {{bz|968929}}</ref><ref>Connecting with remote-viewer - Guest crashed on gnome session start{{bz|969069}}</ref> 
| <references/>
|-
| [[User:Zbyszek|Zbyszek]]
|
* Client: F19, virt-viewer-0.5.6-1.fc19.x86_64
* Host: x86_64, F19, qemu-kvm-1.4.2-2.fc19.x86_64, spice-server-0.12.3-1.fc19.x86_64
* Guest: i686, testday-20130530-i686.iso + xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.1-0.8.20130514git77a1594.fc19 for {{bz|965101}} <ref>Hit {{bz|969084}}, {{bz|969118}} on the way.</ref>
| {{result|fail}} <ref>Works fine with small files, but hangs when transferring an iso image {{bz|969109}}</ref> 
| {{result|pass}} <ref>RFE: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65185</ref>
| {{result|none}}
| {{result|none}}
| <references/>
|-
| [[User:vbudikov|vbudikov]]
|
* Client: F19, virt-viewer-0.5.6-1.fc19.x86_64, gnome-boxes-3.8.2-5.fc19.x86_64
* Host: F19, qemu-kvm-1.4.2-2.fc19.x86_64, spice-server-0.12.3-1.fc19.x86_64
* Guest: F19 with Gnome 3, spice-vdagent-0.14.0-2.fc19.x86_64
| {{result|pass}} 
| {{result|pass}}
| {{result|none}} 
| {{result|none}} 
| <references/>
|-
|}

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