[Users] How to See Ovirt Console From a Remote Windows Host

I know that this is simple for some of you, but I also know from Googling around that lots of people have had trouble seeing their ovirt console from a remote Windows host. Below I describe what finally worked for me. I hope this helps somebody avoid wasting as much time as I did today. I'm a fairly experienced VMWare user who's learning ovirt. I just installed an all-in-one ovirt server and copied a CentOS 6.5 iso into it. I then tried to boot a new VM but soon learned that console access is different in ovirt than on VMWare. I then spent over an hour trying the various documented ways to view a remote console using Spice on my Windows 7 desktop. I even tried using a Linux VM to see if the Firefox plugin for Spice would work. Nothing. What finally worked was installing the virt-viewer Windows client (http://virt-manager.org/download/). Then, I opened the ovirt Administration Portal in Firefox running on my Windows 7 desktop. I created a new VM and configured it the way I wanted. Then, from the "Virtual Machines" tab, I started the new VM. Pretty soon the little console icon turned green so I clicked on it. I got the prompt from Firefox asking me what app I wanted to associate with the ".vv" URL that opened when I clicked on the console icon. I browsed around and selected \Program Files\VirtViewer\bin\remote-viewer.exe which is from the virt-viewer client package I installed above. I told Firefox to always use this app for this kind of file. This works great! I was able to boot the CentOS system and install it with no problems. Good luck! Jon Forrest