Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console

From: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan(a)diwanconsulting.com&gt; To: David Li <david_li(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; Cc: &quot;users(a)ovirt.org&quot; <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console yuck i dont know why they do not just have this already done in an rpm yes it probably works , i have not tested it ,  but virt-viewer is deprecated in favor of the newer Remote-Viewer by the way worst comes to worst  you can always connect to the ovirt vm node server via virt-manager gui in linux .. or using macports virt-manager in OSX and as long as you have a username and password set up in libvirt password db /etc/libvirt/passwd.db use saslpasswd2 -a libvirt $USER  on your ovirt vm host node to add your user account so you dont mess with ovirt's if you have  winaxe or some other Xwindows on your windows machine you could probably just ssh with putty.exe to your ovirt node server and run virt-manager from there while displaying back to your windows desktop -----Original Message----- From: David Li <david_li(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; Reply-to: David Li <david_li(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; To: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan(a)diwanconsulting.com&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; Subject: Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:35:02 -0800 (PST) Is this page still applicable to ovirt 3.3.2? http://wiki.ovirt.org/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal#Add_a_d... ----- Original Message ----- > From: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan(a)diwanconsulting.com&gt; > To: David Li <david_li(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; > Cc: &quot;users(a)ovirt.org&quot; <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:28 PM > Subject: Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console > > install them wherever your firefox browser is installed... > whichever machine you are using to browse to the portal from > > unfortunately i believe ovirts' spice viewing only works on linux > desktops running firefox  currently > > also the ovirt  vnc implementation assumes you have remote-viewer  which > can open that .vv file that pops up.. again remote-viewer would only be > available on linux desktops.. > > there IS a MAC OS port for remote-viewer , but i've never gotten it to > work without a lot of manual URL input > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Li <david_li(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; > Reply-to: David Li <david_li(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; > To: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan(a)diwanconsulting.com&gt; > Cc: users(a)ovirt.org <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Subject: Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:39:20 -0800 (PST) > > > Do I need these to be installed on the engine or on the machine where the > webadmin portal browser is being run? > > Are there any ovirt links describing these? > > david > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >>   From: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan(a)diwanconsulting.com&gt; >>   To: David Li <david_li(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; >>   Cc: &quot;users(a)ovirt.org&quot; <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; >>   Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:35 AM >>   Subject: Re: [Users] Black VM Install Console >> >>   you ve probabaly not install teh spice xpi in your firefox on linux when >>   you opened the console , or maybe the remote-viewer application is >>   missing >> >>   use yum to install these >> >> >> >> >>   -----Original Message-----R >>   eply-to: David Li <david_li(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; >> >>   Subject: [Users] Black VM Install Console >>   Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:08:13 -0800 (PST) >> >>   Hi, >> >>   My first time to install a VM on ovirt has encountered a problem. I tried > to >>   open up a console to continue the install process. But all I got is a blank > >>   window and a request to save a file which I did. The window remained blank > and I >>   couldn't see any activities. I went to the node itself and tried to see > if I >>   could use virsh tool to understand what's going on. But I was asked for > a >>   username and password to perform any actions. >> >>   Any idea what I should do at this time? >> >>   David >> >>   _______________________________________________ >>   Users mailing list >>   Users(a)ovirt.org >>   http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >