Re: [Users] HowTo: Spice ActiveX Plugin/Virt Viewer Console on oVirt 3.1

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

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This is awesome work, thank you so much for this! For our users and adminis=
trators, having a button you just click to get a console is sooo much easie=
r 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 ov=
irt-engine before trying to install the spice-client from the install porta=
l. 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 t=
o 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 cli=
ck 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 th=
e edges of my monitor, and not into the console window- as you would expect=
. Maybe virt-viewer mistakenly "thinks" that the edges of it=B4s window rea=
lly are the edges of the whole monitor? Am I holding it wrong?

/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_Porta=
l

- DHC

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Robert Middleswarth <robert(a)middleswarth.=
net<mailto:robert@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 pr=
oper 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(a)redhat.com&lt;mai=
lto:dougsland@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!

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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 n=
o other option other than the html5 spice console (still beta/in developmen=
t) 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
- 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.w=
ar
- 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=3D"text/javascript"...
 function
installSpice()
{
try {
    document.getElementById('SpiceX').innerHTML =3D '<OBJECT
id=3D"SpiceX" =
codebase=3D"/spice/SpiceX.cab"
classid=3D"clsid:ACD6D89C-938D-49B4-8E81-DDB=
D13F4B48A" width=3D"0" height=3D"0"></OBJECT>';
    } catch (ex) {
        alert("Epic Fail!: " + ex.Description);
    }
}
</script...

</head...

<body...

    <p...

<p><b id=3D'SpiceX'>Spice ActiveX Plugin</b> </p...
     <button onclick=3D'installSpice()'>Install
Spice Plugin</button...

    </p...

</body...

</html...

- Save the file
- You will now need to restart the ovirt-engine service EG: systemctl resta=
rt 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
- 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 p=
roceed 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 n=
ew 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 "applicati=
on/x-spice")
- pop a command terminal and type:
On Windows XP: regsvr32 /u "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local S=
ettings\Application Data\virt-viewer\bin\SpiceX.dll"
On Windows 7 regsvr32 /u C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Sett=
ings\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 res=
t of virt-viewer from the system