Re: [ovirt-users] Bug: Spice port changed!!!!!

Hi Paul, This behaviour is by design. It is a bad idea to override it. A good approach to your problem would be to write a launcher script that would: 1) connect to the REST API 2) get the VM connection details 3) get new VM ticket 4) write this info down to a temporary .vv file [3] 5) launch remote-viewer Some info how to use REST API is described here [1] and .vv file format is documented in virt-viewer sources [2]. Please note that [1] is a bit outdated: * you can use HTTP header "filter: true" to be able to log in as non-admin * you only have to use password login once when you use "prefer: persistent-auth" HTTP header and you send the cookie you got in a response to first request. In the future, the steps 2-4 will become a one step of getting a ready-to-use .vv file from the API [3] but we aren't there yet. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_Without_Portal [2] https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-viewer.git/tree/src/virt-viewer-fi... [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128763 However, if you _really_ want to stick with static port assignments, do the following: 1) designate the port range so that it doesn't collide with other ranges in use (e.g. RHEV uses 5900-6023, so 5800-5899 could be safe) 2) add a custom VM properties to the engine for setting of port and tls-port 3) add a vdsm hook to before_vm_start directory on each host that will add "port" and "tlsPort" parameters to the graphics element of libvirt domain xml Best regards, David On St, 2014-09-17 at 10:41 +0800, PaulCheung wrote: