[Engine-devel] Hints for building up a spicec connection in Ovirt

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/14/2012 06:49 PM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 05:36:38PM +0200, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 03/14/2012 04:51 PM, Andrew Wells wrote:
>>> I am trying to build a connection manually with spicec (or what ever I
>>> need to build the connection with) in Ovirt/RHEV and I am wondering what
>>> do I need to form this connection?
>>>
>>> And if this is the wrong place to ask, can you point me in the correct
>>> direction?
>>
>> rhev-m mostly uses the activex/xpi wrappers.
>> cc-ing spice-devel on command line invocation (or client integrating
>> with the REST API).
>>
>> one thing you will need is to call the engine via the API to set the
>> "ticket" (password) of the VM, to pass to the client.
> http://code.google.com/p/rhev-api-labs/source/browse/python/spice/
> is a fairly old example written for RHEV 2.2 based on the powershell
> RHEV-M API, but I don't think this really changed.

actually, i just saw the ovirt cli has a console launch option.
michael - does it launch spice as well, or only vnc?