Re: [ovirt-users] Spice in 4.0

On 28 Jul 2016, at 13:07, Ivan Bulatović <combuster(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: ‎To be able to use the .vv file, virt-viewer 2.0-8 is required and it can't be found in CentOS 7 repos. CentOS 6 repos contain 2.0-14 version however. Any info about when will the required version land in the CentOS 7 repositories?

TIA, Ivan Original Message From: Michal Skrivanek Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 11:53 To: Alexander Wels; Melissa Mesler Cc: Users(a)ovirt.org List Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Spice in 4.0 > On 21 Jul 2016, at 21:43, Alexander Wels <awels(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On Thursday, July 21, 2016 02:38:41 PM Melissa Mesler wrote: >> That worked! Thank you!!! >> > > Okay, great now if you want to set that as the default, so you don't have to > do that manually each time do the following: > > ssh into the engine box as root. > engine-config -s ClientModeSpiceDefault=Plugin > > That should default it to be plugin for all the VMs. Thank you Alex for jumping in Additional note - the 4.0 distribution of spice components does not contain the XPI/ActiveX anymore, so in case you want to use the deprecated way you need to make sure you install the latest 3.6 version of ActiveX/XPI from 3.6 channels/repos Melissa, may I ask what is the thin client you use? Does the vendor have a plan for future? Another non-intrusive option is to use the web-based console clients….which are of varying quality though, so not a feasible replacement in many cases. Thanks, michal > >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 02:14 PM, Alexander Wels wrote: >>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 01:58:05 PM Melissa Mesler wrote: >>>> Yes, this is a workaround for us after upgrading to 4.0. I know it's >>>> going away in 4.1 but this buys us some time. >>>> >>>> So the first option didn't work b/c like yous aid, it wasn't there. So >>>> we did the second step and it still didn't seem to work. We even tried >>>> restarting ovirt but that didn't help either. Any other ideas? >>> >>> Looking at the code it also set the default mode to 'native' instead of >>> plugin. After you set the flag to true and restarted the engine, do you >>> see the >>> 'plugin' option when you right click on a running VM in webadmin and >>> select >>> console options? It should be under Console Invocation >>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 01:39 PM, Alexander Wels wrote: >>>>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 01:19:35 PM Melissa Mesler wrote: >>>>>> Yes we are trying to get spice working on a thin client where >>>>>> we can't >>>>>> use virt-viewer. I just don't know the steps in the bugzilla to >>>>>> accomplish it as it's not completely clear. >>>>> >>>>> Okay gotcha, >>>>> Note in 4.1 this ability will be completely removed, the bugzilla is >>>>> for cases where people need it in some kind of production environment. >>>>> >>>>> Assuming you can ssh into the machine that is running the engine >>>>> (either HE or standard engine) as root: >>>>> >>>>> engine-config -s EnableDeprecatedClientModeSpicePlugin=true >>>>> >>>>> If that doesn't work because the option was not added to engine-config >>>>> (couldn't tell from reading the code). Try this: >>>>> >>>>> sudo su postgres >>>>> --this will log you in as the postgres user >>>>> psql -d engine >>>>> --this will start psql connecing to the engine database. The >>>>> default will be >>>>> --engine if you didn't specify something else during engine- >>>>> setup. psql -l >>>>> --will list all the databases. >>>>> update vdc_options set option_value=true where >>>>> option_name='EnableDeprecatedClientModeSpicePlugin'; >>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 01:14 PM, Alexander Wels wrote: >>>>>>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 01:08:49 PM Melissa Mesler wrote: >>>>>>>> So I am trying to get spice working in ovirt 4.0. I found the >>>>>>>> following >>>>>>>> solution: >>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316560 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> That bugzilla relates to the legacy spice.xpi FF plugin, and >>>>>>> possibly >>>>>>> some >>>>>>> activex plugin for IE. The current way is the following: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1. Get virt-viewer for your platform. >>>>>>> 2. Associated virt-viewer with .vv files in your browser. >>>>>>> 3. Click the button, which will download the .vv file with the >>>>>>> appropriate >>>>>>> ticket. >>>>>>> 4. The browser will launch virt-viewer with the .vv file as a >>>>>>> >>>>>>> parameter >>>>>>> >>>>>>> and it >>>>>>> should just all work. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Where do you set >>>>>>>> vdc_options.EnableDeprecatedClientModeSpicePlugin to >>>>>>>> 'true'?? I see it says ENGINE_DB but what steps do I follow to >>>>>>>> do this? >>>>>>>> Can someone help me? >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Users mailing list >>>>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>>>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users