2.3.2. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Client Requirements
Use a client with a supported web browser to access the Administration Portal, and the User Portal. The portals support the following clients and browsers:
- Mozilla Firefox 17, and later, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is required to access both portals.
- Internet Explorer 8, and later, on Microsoft Windows is required to access the User Portal. Use the desktop version, not the touchscreen version of Internet Explorer 10.
- Internet Explorer 9, and later, on Microsoft Windows is required to access the Administration Portal. Use the desktop version, not the touchscreen version of Internet Explorer 10.
Install a supported SPICE client to access virtual machine consoles. Supported SPICE clients are available on the following operating systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8+ (i386, AMD64 and Intel 64)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2+ (i386, AMD64 and Intel 64)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5+ (i386, AMD64 and Intel 64)
- Windows XP
- Windows XP Embedded (XPe)
- Windows 7 (x86, AMD64 and Intel 64)
- Windows 8 (x86, AMD64 and Intel 64)
- Windows Embedded Standard 7
- Windows 2008/R2 (x86, AMD64 and Intel 64)
- Windows Embedded Standard 2009
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Certified Linux-based thin clients
Note
Check the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Release Notes to see which SPICE features your client supports.
When you access the portal(s) using Mozilla Firefox the SPICE client is provided by the spice-xpi package, which you must manually install using
yum.
When you access the portal(s) using Internet Explorer the SPICE ActiveX control will automatically be downloaded and installed.