[Users] HowTo: Spice ActiveX Plugin/Virt Viewer Console on oVirt 3.1
Dead Horse
deadhorseconsulting at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 23:21:51 UTC 2012
Thank you! glad to be able to help ;)
As Itamar mentioned if you are running the spice client inside a VM (dunno
if this is case) you will need the guest paravirtual driver and/or services
for mouse handling. I have observed exactly this behavior before when
running the spice client in a VM when the guest tools/drivers for mouse
handling are not present (In my case most of the time VirtualBox).
- DHC
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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<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<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<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<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
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>>> @RobertM (OFTC IRC)
>>>
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>>
>>
>> Med Vänliga Hälsningar
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>> -------------------
>> Karli Sjöberg
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