[Engine-devel] ovirt user portal and attach a cd

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Fri May 10 08:46:10 UTC 2013


On 05/07/2013 12:58 PM, Andrej Bagon wrote:
> How to use spice on windows, but anyway what about on linux?

spice supports both windows and linux, and as mentioned, the change-cd 
feature.

this is a good starting point:
http://wiki.ovirt.org/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal

>
> Best Regards,
> Andrej
>
> On 04/29/2013 12:06 PM, Andrej Bagon wrote:
>> We are using oVirt Engine Version: 3.2.1-1.beta1.el6 and linux
>> environment (and vnc for console). Never tried spice console.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Andrej
>>
>> On 04/29/2013 11:12 AM, Omer Frenkel wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Andrej Bagon" <andrej.bagon at arnes.si>
>>>> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>>>> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 11:28:39 AM
>>>> Subject: [Engine-devel] ovirt user portal and attach a cd
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> we would like to limit a user as much as possible and give him only
>>>> actions that he needs with his VM. If we disallow a user the right in
>>>> system|configure system|manipulate permissions), we give the user, in
>>>> user portal, only basic mode. But then three is no option to attach a cd
>>>> in the basic user portal. In basic mode user interface there is no
>>>> chance in attaching a cd (as this is a basic operation a solution to
>>>> this would be a button attaching a cd when starting a vm).
>>>>
>>>> If we allow the user to manipulate permissions, we get the extended menu
>>>> back and the user is limited, but we found unacceptable when he is
>>>> adding permission to the VM, he sees all the users (name, surname,
>>>> email!) in the ovirt authentication mechanism? A solution to this would
>>>> be authenticating to the directory service as a user an not as ovirt
>>>> admin user - meaning that the user will see only users that we allowed
>>>> he sees in the ldap directory.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Andrej
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>>> well if you only need to change cd for vm,
>>> permission wise, the userRole and basic user portal are enough,
>>> iirc, if using spice (on windows?) that used to be possible, this may be related:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957611
>>>
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