[Users] HowTo: Spice ActiveX Plugin/Virt Viewer Console on oVirt 3.1

Thu Sep 6 20:36:23 UTC 2012

Wiki page added. Feel free to change/edit/contribute or provide feedback.
Link: http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal

- DHC

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Robert Middleswarth <
robert at middleswarth.net> wrote:

>  You should be able to create an ID.  Once you create it several people
> can update your account I am one of them.
>
> Thanks
> Robert
>
>
> On 08/30/2012 11:17 PM, Dead Horse wrote:
>
> I would be happy to wiki'fy it ;)
> I have requested a wiki account so I will just need someone to grant the
> proper create/edit page access or create a stub page and allow edit access
> to it.
> - DHC
>
>  On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Douglas Landgraf <dougsland at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>>  On 08/30/2012 02:22 AM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Can you wiki'fy it (@ wiki.ovirt.org) ?
>> Y.
>>
>>  +1
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> I have seen this question asked many times on this list and the
>> spice-devel list. Now having figured out how to make it work I will provide
>> the answer to the rest of the community.
>>
>> *NOTE* this only applies to Windows/Internet Explorer users. There exists
>> no other option other than the html5 spice console (still beta/in
>> development) for windows users ATM. This will also only work with Internet
>> Explorer.
>>
>> Basic Steps:
>> - Install an oVirt server.
>> - Add at least one node
>> - Setup storage/iso/export domains
>>
>> Advanced steps
>> - Start by downloading: http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/spice.cab
>> - Create a directory for it oVirt looks by default in /usr/share/spice
>> - Rename spice.cab to SpiceX.cab and copy it into /usr/share/spice
>> - Now edit /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/root.war/WEB-INF and add
>> the following:
>>
>>  <!-- SpiceX.cab -->
>>   <servlet>
>>     <servlet-name>SpiceX.cab</servlet-name>
>>     <servlet-class>org.ovirt.engine.core.FileServlet</servlet-class>
>>     <init-param>
>>       <param-name>type</param-name>
>>       <param-value>application/octet-stream</param-value>
>>     </init-param>
>>     <init-param>
>>       <param-name>file</param-name>
>>       <param-value>/usr/share/spice/SpiceX.cab</param-value>
>>     </init-param>
>>   </servlet>
>>   <servlet-mapping>
>>     <servlet-name>SpiceX.cab</servlet-name>
>>     <url-pattern>/spice/SpiceX.cab</url-pattern>
>>   </servlet-mapping>
>>
>> - Next create an html file within
>> /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/root.war
>> - In the example below an html file called "spice.html"
>> - Copy/Paste the below into spice.html:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE html>
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>SPICE Plugin Installer</title>
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript">
>> function installSpice()
>> {
>> try {
>>     document.getElementById('SpiceX').innerHTML = '<OBJECT id="SpiceX"
>> codebase="/spice/SpiceX.cab"
>> classid="clsid:ACD6D89C-938D-49B4-8E81-DDBD13F4B48A" width="0"
>> height="0"></OBJECT>';
>>     } catch (ex) {
>>         alert("Epic Fail!: " + ex.Description);
>>     }
>> }
>> </script>
>>
>> </head>
>> <body>
>>     <p>
>>     <p><b id='SpiceX'>Spice ActiveX Plugin</b> </p>
>>     <button onclick='installSpice()'>Install Spice Plugin</button>
>>     </p>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>> - Save the file
>> - You will now need to restart the ovirt-engine service EG: systemctl
>> restart ovirt-engine.service OR service ovirt-engine restart
>> - The installer page will now be available at http://<url to ovirt
>> server>/spice.html EX: http://ovirt.azeroth.net/spice.html
>> - Navigate to that page and click the install button
>> - IE will prompt you to deploy/install the SpiceX cabinet file
>> - It may gripe about an unsigned or untrusted source, acknowledge this an
>> proceed anyways
>> - If the install succeeds the text "Spice ActiveX Plugin" on the page
>> will change to blank (it's actually the plugin with null values)
>> - The console button in the user and webadmin portals will now launch the
>> new virt-viwer spice based console!
>>
>> Happy Spice Consoling to your VM's from Windows!
>>
>> *NOTE*
>> To uninstall the plugin:
>> - The below removes the add-on from IE (EG: removes knowledge of
>> "application/x-spice")
>> - pop a command terminal and type:
>> On Windows XP: regsvr32 /u "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local
>> Settings\Application Data\virt-viewer\bin\SpiceX.dll"
>> On Windows 7 regsvr32 /u C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local
>> Settings\AppData\virt-viewer\bin\SpiceX.dll"
>> - Next we need to remove the rest of virt-viewer
>> - Go to add/remove programs and uninstall virt-viewer, this removes the
>> rest of virt-viewer from the system
>>
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>>   --
>> Cheers
>> Douglas
>>
>>
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