Re: [Users] Can't open ovirt console using Spice or VNC - help!

On Feb 11, 2014, at 1:27 AM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg(a)slu.se&gt; wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 12:04 -0500, Drew Showers wrote: > The guest is MacOS 10.8.5. or CentOS 6.4. Now I´m confused. By guest, I meant Virtual Machine guest, not your PC. And by graphic packages, I was assuming you meant graphics _driver_ packages. Are we on the same track this far? /K > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg(a)slu.se&gt; > wrote: > On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 19:00 -0500, Drew Showers wrote: >> I did not see that and it works, thank you! > > > Glad it worked! > >> Looks like I need some UI driver help though. >> >> >> Running the script actually helped me get to the root > cause... Can't >> access the host name error. Of course it couldn't, I don't > expose that >> host name outside the ovirt network. I was on my wireless > network. >> Once I plugged into the ovirt net it worked. Duh! >> >> >> Do you know of any spice graphic packages that don't need to > be >> compiled? > > > What´s the guest? Windows? > >> >> >> Cheers! >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Karli Sjöberg > <Karli.Sjoberg(a)slu.se&gt; >> wrote: >> >> Den 9 feb 2014 20:00 skrev Drew Showers > <drew(a)augurworks.com&gt;: >> >> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm a nube with ovirt, but have the ovirt-engine > and 1 >> remote host up and running (separate physical > servers, same >> subnet). The network, DNS. NFS all work. I can > create VM's, >> install the ISO OS with no problems. Here is were I > get >> stuck. >>> >>> After a frustrating few hours trying to get a > console to >> launch on my mac, >> Have you seen this? >> >> http://www.ovirt.org/SPICE_Remote-Viewer_on_OS_X >> >> /Karli >> >> I broke down and created a new Centos 6.4 Desktop VM > using >> Fusion. I've installed - >>> >>> spice-xpi (yum install spice-xpi) >>> virt-manager (yum install virt-manager) >>> >>> Using Firefox, if I try to open the console from > the ovirt >> admin using Spice browser plugin or native client > options, >> nothing happens (no errors either), other than > message saying >> the user is initiating a console session. >>> >>> If using VNC, then it wants to either download the >> console.vv or open it with the default viewer, which > throws >> and error "Unable to connect to the graphics server > file" >>> >>> So, I'm stuck in going any further until I get > this worked >> out. No VM IP or host name (unless I'm missing > something)... >> I actually find this quite unfriendly. I know > similar issues >> have been discussed previously, but none have solved > my >> problem. BTW: I'm running Centos 6.5 on both the > engine and >> host. >>> >>> I'm not sure if I'm missing additional packages or > what. Any >> help would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Drew