Why not webadmin/portal just report VNC port and IP to connect, also
have option to set VNC password.
Many users not have Linux desktop with spice installed. I wish i can
use Windows, Android, etc to connect console.
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Ryan Harper <ryanh(a)us.ibm.com> wrote:
* Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com> [2011-12-02 14:25]:
> > > From: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] On
> Behalf Of Adam Litke
> ...
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:10:55AM +0700, Phattanon Duangdara wrote:
> > > > I just finished setup oVirt on FC16 (same host run vdsmd)
> > > >
> > > > I can start VM but cannot connect console using VNC. No information
> > > > for connecting VNC available.
> > > > Although I can figure out which port VNC running, I don't know
> > > > password and it cannot be set or view from webadmin or userportal
> > > > console.
> > >
> > > VDSM has a SetVmTicket API that you can use to set a VNC password. If
> your host
> > > has the vdsClient program installed, try:
> > >
> > > vdsClient 0.0.0.0 setVmTicket <vm UUID> abc123 60
> > >
> > > This will set the password to 'abc123' for 60 seconds. That being
> said, I think
> > > the oVirt supported display mode is spice. You may have an easier
> time
> > > connecting via spice.
> >
> > The user portal and webadmin don't support VNC currently.
> > You can use the REST API of ovirt engine to set the ticket (vnc
> password) and connect.
>
> Btw, is there a reason you prefer vnc to spice?
vnc client already installed? I'm positive I've got a vnc client for my
current distro and pretty sure I don't have a spice client installed.
(ff3k) ~ % cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 11.04 \n \l
(ff3k) ~ % apt-cache search spice
xserver-xorg-video-qxl - X.Org X server -- QXL display driver
chiark-scripts - chiark system administration scripts
gnucap - GNU Circuit Analysis package
gspiceui - A graphical user interface for gnucap and ngspice
gwave - a waveform viewer eg for spice simulators
oregano - tool for schematical capture of electronic circuits
easyspice - A graphical frontend to the Spice simulator
ngspice - A Spice circuit simulator
ngspice-doc - Documentation for the ngspice circuit simulator
tclspice - NGspice library for Tcl
tclspice-dev - NGspice library for Tcl
is one of those the spice client? (QXL looks like the xserver backend
support).
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Ryan Harper
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