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.

> 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