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.<br><br>*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.<br>
<br>Basic Steps:<br>- Install an oVirt server.<br>- Add at least one node<br>- Setup storage/iso/export domains<br><br>Advanced steps<br>- Start by downloading: <a href="http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/spice.cab">http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/spice.cab</a><br>
- Create a directory for it oVirt looks by default in /usr/share/spice<br>- Rename spice.cab to SpiceX.cab and copy it into /usr/share/spice<br>- Now edit /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/root.war/WEB-INF and add the following:<br>
<br> <!-- SpiceX.cab --><br> <servlet><br> <servlet-name>SpiceX.cab</servlet-name><br> <servlet-class>org.ovirt.engine.core.FileServlet</servlet-class><br> <init-param><br>
<param-name>type</param-name><br> <param-value>application/octet-stream</param-value><br> </init-param><br> <init-param><br> <param-name>file</param-name><br>
<param-value>/usr/share/spice/SpiceX.cab</param-value><br> </init-param><br> </servlet><br> <servlet-mapping><br> <servlet-name>SpiceX.cab</servlet-name><br> <url-pattern>/spice/SpiceX.cab</url-pattern><br>
</servlet-mapping><br><br>- Next create an html file within /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/root.war<br>- In the example below an html file called "spice.html"<br>- Copy/Paste the below into spice.html:<br>
<br><!DOCTYPE html><br><html><br><head><br><title>SPICE Plugin Installer</title><br><br><script type="text/javascript"><br>function installSpice()<br>{<br>try {<br> document.getElementById('SpiceX').innerHTML = '<OBJECT id="SpiceX" codebase="/spice/SpiceX.cab" classid="clsid:ACD6D89C-938D-49B4-8E81-DDBD13F4B48A" width="0" height="0"></OBJECT>';<br>
} catch (ex) {<br> alert("Epic Fail!: " + ex.Description);<br> }<br>} <br></script><br><br></head><br><body><br> <p><br> <p><b id='SpiceX'>Spice ActiveX Plugin</b> </p> <br>
<button onclick='installSpice()'>Install Spice Plugin</button><br> </p><br></body><br></html><br><br>- Save the file<br>- You will now need to restart the ovirt-engine service EG: systemctl restart ovirt-engine.service OR service ovirt-engine restart<br>
- The installer page will now be available at http://<url to ovirt server>/spice.html EX: <a href="http://ovirt.azeroth.net/spice.html">http://ovirt.azeroth.net/spice.html</a><br>- Navigate to that page and click the install button<br>
- IE will prompt you to deploy/install the SpiceX cabinet file<br>- It may gripe about an unsigned or untrusted source, acknowledge this an proceed anyways<br>- If the install succeeds the text "Spice ActiveX Plugin" on the page will change to blank (it's actually the plugin with null values)<br>
- The console button in the user and webadmin portals will now launch the new virt-viwer spice based console!<br><br>Happy Spice Consoling to your VM's from Windows!<br><br>*NOTE*<br>To uninstall the plugin:<br>- The below removes the add-on from IE (EG: removes knowledge of "application/x-spice")<br>
- pop a command terminal and type:<br>On Windows XP: regsvr32 /u "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\virt-viewer\bin\SpiceX.dll"<br>On Windows 7 regsvr32 /u C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\AppData\virt-viewer\bin\SpiceX.dll"<br>
- Next we need to remove the rest of virt-viewer<br>- Go to add/remove programs and uninstall virt-viewer, this removes the rest of virt-viewer from the system<br>