Re: [Users] How to connect VNC console ?
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Harper [mailto:ryanh@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 23:15 PM
To: Itamar Heim
Cc: 'Adam Litke'; 'Phattanon Duangdara'; users(a)ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [Users] How to connect VNC console ?
* Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com> [2011-12-02 14:25]:
> > > From: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] On
> Behalf Of Adam Litke
> ...
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:10:55AM +0700, Phattanon Duangdara
wrote:
> > > > I just finished setup oVirt on FC16 (same host
run vdsmd)
> > > >
> > > > I can start VM but cannot connect console using VNC. No
information
> > > > for connecting VNC available.
> > > > Although I can figure out which port VNC running, I don't know
> > > > password and it cannot be set or view from webadmin or
userportal
> > > > console.
> > >
> > > VDSM has a SetVmTicket API that you can use to set a VNC password.
If
> your host
> > > has the vdsClient program installed, try:
> > >
> > > vdsClient 0.0.0.0 setVmTicket <vm UUID> abc123 60
> > >
> > > This will set the password to 'abc123' for 60 seconds. That
being
> said, I think
> > > the oVirt supported display mode is spice. You may have an easier
> time
> > > connecting via spice.
> >
> > The user portal and webadmin don't support VNC currently.
> > You can use the REST API of ovirt engine to set the ticket (vnc
> password) and connect.
>
> Btw, is there a reason you prefer vnc to spice?
vnc client already installed? I'm positive I've got a vnc client for my
current distro and pretty sure I don't have a spice client installed.
(ff3k) ~ % cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 11.04 \n \l
(ff3k) ~ % apt-cache search spice
xserver-xorg-video-qxl - X.Org X server -- QXL display driver
chiark-scripts - chiark system administration scripts
gnucap - GNU Circuit Analysis package
gspiceui - A graphical user interface for gnucap and ngspice
gwave - a waveform viewer eg for spice simulators
oregano - tool for schematical capture of electronic circuits
easyspice - A graphical frontend to the Spice simulator
ngspice - A Spice circuit simulator
ngspice-doc - Documentation for the ngspice circuit simulator
tclspice - NGspice library for Tcl
tclspice-dev - NGspice library for Tcl
is one of those the spice client? (QXL looks like the xserver backend
support).
Qxl is the geust driver (i.e., to get better spice support when connecting
to the guest).
cc-ing spice-devel mailing list to check if they have insight about the
spice client and xpi status for Ubuntu.