[ovirt-users] oVirt 4.0.5 and SHE console from gui

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Gianluca Cecchi
<gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> In a clean environment configured in 4.0.5 I used VNC for hosted engine VM
> console during setup.
> In web admin gui I see that the graphics protocol for the Hosted Engine VM
> is indeed VNC and Video Type VGA.
>
> I have verified that if I configure a VM with VNC graphics (video type both
> cirrus and vga tried) I'm able to connect to it with remote-viewer from
> Linux client and with virt-viewer in a W2012 client.
> A part from the usual command
>  hosted-engine --add-console-password
> and related vmcviewer one from console,

Does this work?

> can I connect  to the VNC engine
> console also from web admin gui?
> Both from Windows and Linux I get error
>
> Unable to connect to the graphic server
> C:\Users\Admini~1\Appdata\Local\Temp\console-12.vv
>
> Unable to connect to the graphic server /tmp/mozilla_g.cecchi0/console.vv

Can you please check/share the .vv files?

>
> Can I setup console to spice after install? And in case can I connect to its
> console from webadmin gui then?

Not sure if this is covered by [1]. Adding Roy.
If it's not, you can try manually editing it, check e.g. [2], and feel
free to open an RFE.

Best,

[1] https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/hosted-engine-vm-management/
[2] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-November/036152.html
-- 
Didi