[Users] test day help -- console

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan at redhat.com>
> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 10:43:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] test day help -- console
> 
> 
> 
> On 11 Feb 2014, at 23:57, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm having a tough time getting a VM console working via VNC. I set a VM to
> > use VNC, and I installed virt-viewer.
> > 
> > 1. When I try to open a .vv file with virt-viewer, I get an error "Cannot
> > find guest domain /var/tmp/console.vv"
> 
> Old virt-viewer. Where did you get it from?

It's built into current debian, I use it too. Does it support vv files?
Didn't know that. The same package also has 'remote-viewer', which works
for me with:
remote-viewer vnc://host:port

> 
> > 2. Using a VNC client to connect to the host with the password in the .vv
> > file just immediately disconnects it -- no error message.

For vv files I use the following script:

=========================================================================
#!/bin/sh

LOG=$HOME/vv1.log
echo ===================== $(date) >> $LOG
echo params "$@" >> $LOG

vvfile="$1"
host=$(sed -n 's/^host=\([a-zA-Z0-9-]*\).*/\1/p' "$vvfile")
port=$(sed -n 's/^port=\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p' "$vvfile")
echo "$host" >> $LOG
echo "$port" >> $LOG
sed -n 's/^password=\(.*\)/\1/p' "$vvfile" | vncviewer -autopass "${host}::${port}" &

sleep 2
/bin/rm -f "$vvfile"
=========================================================================

Verified now that it works (I seldom use it because the default is spice
which works for me).

> 
> Did you make it in 120s?

That was the main reason for this script :-)

>  Certificates?

Didn't bother with that.

> 
> > 3. noVNC just gives me an empty popup with a gray background.
> 
> You didn't import the engine's CA, did you?
> 
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> The Console Downloads page has all the info to get it work, did you check it
> out? (linked from main landing page, display options, user portal...so you
> shouldn't moss it;)

You refer to 'Console Client Resources', which links to [1]?
I had to do some manual work to get spice-xpi working on Debian as it's not
packaged for it (and iirc neither are some of the dependencies).

[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Console_Client_Resources
-- 
Didi