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

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Wed Sep 12 20:49:59 UTC 2012


On 09/12/2012 05:21 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> This is awesome work, thank you so much for this! For our users and
> administrators, having a button you just click to get a console is sooo
> much easier than having to copy-paste a bunch of cryptic addresses and
> passwords, and having to use the infamous, dangerous hacker tool VNC:)
>
> I followed the wiki instructions and a vital piece missing is to restart
> ovirt-engine before trying to install the spice-client from the install
> portal. I went back and read through the email you first posted and the
> restart was mentioned there so I did and then it worked! Wohoo! So you
> might want to add that point to the wiki page as well, to avoid future
> confusion.
>
> But...when I have virt-viewer(-0.5.3) installed, log in to webadmin and
> click for console on a guest, the console shows up. But when I try to go
> into the console window with the mouse cursor, the cursor jumps off to
> one of the edges of my *monitor*, and not into the console window- as
> you would expect. Maybe virt-viewer mistakenly "thinks" that the edges
> of it´s window really are the edges of the whole monitor? Am I holding
> it wrong?

do you have spice guest side drivers for local mouse handling?

>
> /Karli
>
> 6 sep 2012 kl. 22.36 skrev Dead Horse:
>
>> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto:dougsland at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         On 08/30/2012 02:22 AM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>>>>         Thanks!
>>>>         Can you wiki'fy it (@ wiki.ovirt.org <http://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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>>
>>     --
>>     Thanks
>>     Robert Middleswarth
>>     @rmiddle (twitter/Freenode IRC)
>>     @RobertM (OFTC IRC)
>>
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