[Users] Has anyone got a working script that could allow me to get a URL to connect to using virt-viewer under windows or for setting up vnc.

[Michael Pasternak]

On 06/07/2012 02:04 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 06/07/2012 01:14 AM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
>> On 06/06/2012 03:13 PM, David Jaša wrote:
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> This is a problem:
>>>
>>> 1 a) the active x plugin for windows/ie is not yet released.
>> Yep I know.  I tired to work around the issue by creating a fedora VM
>> for people to VNC to however spicec aborts with the following error.
>>
>> 1339005616 INFO [11312:11312] Application::main: starting 0.8.3
>> 1339005616 ERROR [11312:11312] main: unhandled exception: Unsupported
>> visual for screen
>>
>> That suggest to me that spicec wants a real frame buffer not a virtual
>> one.  I am really open to suggestions for windows users to be able to
>> console to a VM?  That is why I am looking for a script something that
>> can be run external of ovirt that can set a password and give them a URL
>> that can be used by VNC or virt-viewer?
>>>
>>> 1 b) the XPI plugin is linux-only (and effectively firefox-only but I
>>> think that patches for Chrome/Webkit compatibility will be welcome)
>> Works fine under Fedora inside a virtualbox VM.  So I am guessing it
>> works fine in a bare metal install.
>>>
>>> 2) for Ubuntu, you'd need at least first of these two geting merged in
>>> Debian and then wait half year for Ubuntu to leech it:
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667565
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668284
>>> (the second is technically not necessary but given that spicec is being
>>> discontinued and all the development takes there...)
>>>
>>> Alternatively, you could get spice-xpi for ubuntu from PPAs.
>> Please send me a link to a working PPA for ubuntu?  I have tried
>> https://launchpad.net/~jasonbrooks/+archive/ppa under both 11.10 and
>> 12.04 under both 32bit and 64bit Versions and both just error out.  Sent
>> the Aurthur an email reporting the issue and never heard back.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> Robert Middleswarth píše v St 06. 06. 2012 v 14:50 -0400:
>>>> I like spice under Fedora but most of my users use windows.  A few use
>>>> Kubuntu none user Fedora at this time.  I like ovirt and have been
>>>> testing it for some time.  3.1 looks really good and all my tests have
>>>> been working well if I can fix the console issues we would be bring
>>>> ovirt into production but until we can find a way for the admin team to
>>>> be able to access console oVirt is a no go.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Robert
>>>>
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>> Trust me I have read up on the issue unless everyone in my group wants
>> to keep a fedora VM to access the console on there system there doesn't
>> seem to be a way for an admin to console to a VM currently.  This will
>> change at some point but until there is a workaround available for
>> windows users or users of other distro's then Red Hat based ones oVirt
>> isn't really usable.
>>
>> That is why I am asking if anyone has created a script I can use.
>> Something that will allow me to run select a VM and have it assign
>> assign a password and display a URL that can be copied / pasted into
>> either virt-viewer or vnc.  I have seen piece of it in the various
>> lists.  Suggesting that something could be done using the rest, sdk, or
>> cli api's.
>>
>> I have seen some info on getting VNC to work but nothing organized and I
>> would lose all spice support if I did but getting VNC to work is a
>> possibility's.  Although my preference would be something still using
>> spice so spice-xpi would continue to work and over time the need for the
>> hack would reduce and more OS's gain support.
>>
>> So that brings me back to my original question.  Does anyone have a
>> scripts or at least a string of commands I can tie together to spit out
>> a URL I can use to connect using Virt-Viewer preferred or something for VNC.
> 
> michael - i remember CLI supports this?

correct, i believe ovirt-cli has all you looking for, /console/ interface for
vm and scripting capabilities, for more details see [1],
for setting ticket via sdk, see sdk wiki [2]

[1] http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/CLI
[2] http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/SDK

> Robert - very (very) preliminary, you can look at spice.html5
> 
>>
>> Thanks
>> Robert
>>
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Michael Pasternak
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