On Friday, September 19, 2014 10:26:55 AM Bill Dossett wrote:

Thanks David, I appreciate the help. I installed virt-manager on my virt-engine. And I have installed virt-viewer on my workstation... I am still not getting a console though. I don't quite understand if I have to do anything further.. I have checked the faq and looked at the screen shots, but I am not much the wiser... is there any more detail I can read on installing and getting this running? I am assuming I connect to virt-engine for this - should the console button in the virt-engine bring up the remote viewer, or do I have to start the remote view separately? I turned the firewall off to make sure that isn't the problem. It appears its trying fire virt-manager up on to a remote x display I guess, but I just get "unable to connect to the graphic server spice://ovirt.pbi.global.pvt:5900 " Any further advice on getting this running would be greatly appreciated.

Odds are your machine you are trying to connect with does not have the fully qualified domain name of the host it is trying to connect to. If you don't have DNS setup for it you should be able to add it to your hosts file (we recommend DNS though). If that is not the problem you can simply download the .vv and manually start the viewer with a debug flag, and it will tell you in detail what the problem is. remote-viewer xxx.vv --debug Note there is a time limit on how long the ticket is active, if I recall correctly its 120 seconds, so be fast when you do it.

Bill

-----Original Message----- From: David Jaša [mailto:djasa@redhat.com] Sent: 19 September 2014 09:05 To: Bill Dossett Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] console spice questions

Hi Bill,

Yes, the document is already dated. Lately, you don't have to go through the hoops needed to make spice-x work. Even if you can get it, it will only work for you in IE < 11. You should instead just install virt-viewer [1] and the consoles should Just Work for you using the Natice Client (.vv file) method.

David

[1] http://virt-manager.org/download/

On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 07:20 +0000, Bill Dossett wrote:

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Hi

After setting up an ovirt cluster with 4 hosts and getting my networking and vlans all connected I’m pretty impressed with ovirt. I am however not too impressed with trying to actually get a console into a VM. I’m not sure why this isn’t included in the ovirt engine to begin with as console access to actually configure a VM to make templates of seems a pretty basic tenant of virtualisation.

Anyway, I am following the guide http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal and trying to download spice.cab to follow the rather long procedure to install, however the link on that page gives a 404 page not found error. Could someone point me to the actual download? Is this document perhaps outdated and I am following the wrong path?

Thanks

Bill Dossett

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Thank you. IE wasn't telling me about a .vv download... I had reverted to using IE as virt-engine seemed like it was happier with me using IE and warned me that graphic display wasn't optimal with FireFox.. so anyway, I tried FireFox again and it offered to download the .vv file and I opened it and associated it with Remote Viewer and yes it works. Looks like I am back on track again. -----Original Message----- From: David Jaša [mailto:djasa@redhat.com] Sent: 19 September 2014 13:29 To: Bill Dossett Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] console spice questions Hi, On Pá, 2014-09-19 at 10:26 +0000, Bill Dossett wrote:

Thanks David, I appreciate the help. I installed virt-manager on my virt-engine.

That isn't needed.

And I have installed virt-viewer on my workstation...

This is what I advised.

I am still not getting a console though. I don't quite understand if I have to do anything further.. I have checked the faq and looked at the screen shots, but I am not much the wiser... is there any more detail I can read on installing and getting this running?

Once you install virt-viewer in Windows, it should be associated with .vv files. When you click Console then, you should be offered with .vv file download, let it open with virt-viewer (should work out-of-the-box) and voilà, you should see your console. If you're not offered with .vv file for download, try choosing "Native client" method in Console options (and of course if you have spice console selected in VM options) so,

I am assuming I connect to virt-engine for this - should the console button in the virt-engine bring up the remote viewer,

yes, it should,

or do I have to start the remote view separately?

no,

I turned the firewall off to make sure that isn't the problem.

Firewall is not involved unless you restrict outbound connections as well,

It appears its trying fire virt-manager up on to a remote x display I guess, but I just get "unable to connect to the graphic server spice://ovirt.pbi.global.pvt:5900 "

again, virt-manager is not the thingy you want, virt-viewer is. HTH, David

Any further advice on getting this running would be greatly appreciated.

Bill

-----Original Message----- From: David Jaša [mailto:djasa@redhat.com] Sent: 19 September 2014 09:05 To: Bill Dossett Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] console spice questions

Hi Bill,

Yes, the document is already dated. Lately, you don't have to go through the hoops needed to make spice-x work. Even if you can get it, it will only work for you in IE < 11. You should instead just install virt-viewer [1] and the consoles should Just Work for you using the Natice Client (.vv file) method.

David

[1] http://virt-manager.org/download/

On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 07:20 +0000, Bill Dossett wrote:

...

Hi

After setting up an ovirt cluster with 4 hosts and getting my networking and vlans all connected I’m pretty impressed with ovirt. I am however not too impressed with trying to actually get a console into a VM. I’m not sure why this isn’t included in the ovirt engine to begin with as console access to actually configure a VM to make templates of seems a pretty basic tenant of virtualisation.

Anyway, I am following the guide http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal and trying to download spice.cab to follow the rather long procedure to install, however the link on that page gives a 404 page not found error. Could someone point me to the actual download? Is this document perhaps outdated and I am following the wrong path?

Thanks

Bill Dossett

Virtualisation Architect

Pitney Bowes – Tech Central

6 Hercules Way, 600 Leavesden Park

Watford, WD25 7GS

Phone(+44) (0)1923 279353 | VOIP: 54739353

Mobile(+44) (0)7775 908612

bill.dossett@pb.com

www.pb.com

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Hi, On So, 2014-09-20 at 11:31 +0000, Bill Dossett wrote:

Thank you. IE wasn't telling me about a .vv download...

It may be caused by spice-x presence in the system. If you remove it from IE, IE should offer you .vv file download. spice-activex doesn't have an uninstaller so you can remove it from IE using "About plugins..." --> All plug-ins --> Red Hat SpiceX -- Remove (from top of my head so YMMV). It should do the job but there will still be some traces scattered across the registry - try looking for spicex, spice-x, spice-activex, ACD6D89C-938D-49B4-8E81-DDBD13F4B48A and ACD6D89C-938D-49B4-8E81-DDBD13F4B48B (the UUIDs are class IDs used by x86 and x86_64 versions of plug-in respectively). Regards, David

I had reverted to using IE as virt-engine seemed like it was happier with me using IE and warned me that graphic display wasn't optimal with FireFox.. so anyway, I tried FireFox again and it offered to download the .vv file and I opened it and associated it with Remote Viewer and yes it works. Looks like I am back on track again.

-----Original Message----- From: David Jaša [mailto:djasa@redhat.com] Sent: 19 September 2014 13:29 To: Bill Dossett Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] console spice questions

Hi,

On Pá, 2014-09-19 at 10:26 +0000, Bill Dossett wrote:

...

Thanks David, I appreciate the help. I installed virt-manager on my virt-engine.

That isn't needed.

...

And I have installed virt-viewer on my workstation...

This is what I advised.

...

I am still not getting a console though. I don't quite understand if I have to do anything further.. I have checked the faq and looked at the screen shots, but I am not much the wiser... is there any more detail I can read on installing and getting this running?

Once you install virt-viewer in Windows, it should be associated with .vv files. When you click Console then, you should be offered with .vv file download, let it open with virt-viewer (should work out-of-the-box) and voilà, you should see your console.

If you're not offered with .vv file for download, try choosing "Native client" method in Console options (and of course if you have spice console selected in VM options)

so,

...

I am assuming I connect to virt-engine for this - should the console button in the virt-engine bring up the remote viewer,

yes, it should,

...

or do I have to start the remote view separately?

no,

...

I turned the firewall off to make sure that isn't the problem.

Firewall is not involved unless you restrict outbound connections as well,

...

It appears its trying fire virt-manager up on to a remote x display I guess, but I just get "unable to connect to the graphic server spice://ovirt.pbi.global.pvt:5900 "

again, virt-manager is not the thingy you want, virt-viewer is.

HTH,

David

...

Any further advice on getting this running would be greatly appreciated.

Bill

-----Original Message----- From: David Jaša [mailto:djasa@redhat.com] Sent: 19 September 2014 09:05 To: Bill Dossett Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] console spice questions

Hi Bill,

Yes, the document is already dated. Lately, you don't have to go through the hoops needed to make spice-x work. Even if you can get it, it will only work for you in IE < 11. You should instead just install virt-viewer [1] and the consoles should Just Work for you using the Natice Client (.vv file) method.

David

[1] http://virt-manager.org/download/

On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 07:20 +0000, Bill Dossett wrote:

...

Hi

After setting up an ovirt cluster with 4 hosts and getting my networking and vlans all connected I’m pretty impressed with ovirt. I am however not too impressed with trying to actually get a console into a VM. I’m not sure why this isn’t included in the ovirt engine to begin with as console access to actually configure a VM to make templates of seems a pretty basic tenant of virtualisation.

Anyway, I am following the guide http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal and trying to download spice.cab to follow the rather long procedure to install, however the link on that page gives a 404 page not found error. Could someone point me to the actual download? Is this document perhaps outdated and I am following the wrong path?

Thanks

Bill Dossett

Virtualisation Architect

Pitney Bowes – Tech Central

6 Hercules Way, 600 Leavesden Park

Watford, WD25 7GS

Phone(+44) (0)1923 279353 | VOIP: 54739353

Mobile(+44) (0)7775 908612

bill.dossett@pb.com

www.pb.com

In Engineering?Raise a ticket via Remedy Anywhere [HERE]takes less than a minute

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