[ovirt-users] Spice in 4.0

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 21 Jul 2016, at 21:43, Alexander Wels <awels at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 02:38:41 PM Melissa Mesler wrote:
>> That worked! Thank you!!!
>> 
> 
> Okay, great now if you want to set that as the default, so you don't have to 
> do that manually each time do the following:
> 
> ssh into the engine box as root.
> engine-config -s ClientModeSpiceDefault=Plugin
> 
> That should default it to be plugin for all the VMs.

Thank you Alex for jumping in
Additional note - the 4.0 distribution of spice components does not contain the XPI/ActiveX anymore, so in case you want to use the deprecated way you need to make sure you install the latest 3.6 version of ActiveX/XPI from 3.6 channels/repos

Melissa, may I ask what is the thin client you use? Does the vendor have a plan for future? Another non-intrusive option is to use the web-based console clients….which are of varying quality though, so not a feasible replacement in many cases.

Thanks,
michal

> 
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 02:14 PM, Alexander Wels wrote:
>>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 01:58:05 PM Melissa Mesler wrote:
>>>> Yes, this is a workaround for us after upgrading to 4.0. I know it's
>>>> going away in 4.1 but this buys us some time.
>>>> 
>>>> So the first option didn't work b/c like yous aid, it wasn't there. So
>>>> we did the second step and it still didn't seem to work. We even tried
>>>> restarting ovirt but that didn't help either. Any other ideas?
>>> 
>>> Looking at the code it also set the default mode to 'native' instead of
>>> plugin. After you set the flag to true and restarted the engine, do you
>>> see the
>>> 'plugin' option when you right click on a running VM in webadmin and
>>> select
>>> console options? It should be under Console Invocation
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 01:39 PM, Alexander Wels wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 01:19:35 PM Melissa Mesler wrote:
>>>>>> Yes we are trying to get spice working on a thin client where
>>>>>> we can't
>>>>>> use virt-viewer. I just don't know the steps in the bugzilla to
>>>>>> accomplish it as it's not completely clear.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Okay gotcha,
>>>>> Note in 4.1 this ability will be completely removed, the bugzilla is
>>>>> for cases where people need it in some kind of production environment.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Assuming you can ssh into the machine that is running the engine
>>>>> (either HE or standard engine) as root:
>>>>> 
>>>>> engine-config -s EnableDeprecatedClientModeSpicePlugin=true
>>>>> 
>>>>> If that doesn't work because the option was not added to engine-config
>>>>> (couldn't tell from reading the code). Try this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> sudo su postgres
>>>>> --this will log you in as the postgres user
>>>>> psql -d engine
>>>>> --this will start psql connecing to the engine database. The
>>>>> default will be
>>>>> --engine if you didn't specify something else during engine-
>>>>> setup. psql -l
>>>>> --will list all the databases.
>>>>> update vdc_options set option_value=true where
>>>>> option_name='EnableDeprecatedClientModeSpicePlugin';
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 01:14 PM, Alexander Wels wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 01:08:49 PM Melissa Mesler wrote:
>>>>>>>> So I am trying to get spice working in ovirt 4.0. I found the
>>>>>>>> following
>>>>>>>> solution:
>>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316560
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> That bugzilla relates to the legacy spice.xpi FF plugin, and
>>>>>>> possibly
>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>> activex plugin for IE. The current way is the following:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 1. Get virt-viewer for your platform.
>>>>>>> 2. Associated virt-viewer with .vv files in your browser.
>>>>>>> 3. Click the button, which will download the .vv file with the
>>>>>>> appropriate
>>>>>>> ticket.
>>>>>>> 4. The browser will launch virt-viewer with the .vv file as a
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   parameter
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> and it
>>>>>>> should just all work.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Where do you set
>>>>>>>> vdc_options.EnableDeprecatedClientModeSpicePlugin to
>>>>>>>> 'true'?? I see it says ENGINE_DB but what steps do I follow to
>>>>>>>> do this?
>>>>>>>> Can someone help me?
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