Connecting to a VM console with Spice via the RHEV/Ovirt admin interface works just fine. How can I connect to a VM's console using a free-standing Spice viewer, such as the Chrome Spice Viewer plug-in? I've so far found no information on this at all. regards, John
Hi John, do you mean 'Spice client' addon in chrome store?
From what I learnt about the client, it seems it's basically HTML5 client for SPICE. For this you must set up your websocket proxy.
I believe the easier way is to use already built-in SPICE-HTML5 client. It should run on Firefox and Chrome. Please take a look at this page [1] and feel free to contact me about it. There is also possibility of setting up websocket proxy and connecting to spice port directly, but IMHO that wouldn't be exactly user-friendly. Cheers, Franta. [1]: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/noVNC_console#Setup_Websocket_Proxy_on_the_Eng... ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Gardeniers" <jgardeniers@objectmastery.com> To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2014 11:03:31 PM Subject: [ovirt-users] Using a free-standing Spice viewer Connecting to a VM console with Spice via the RHEV/Ovirt admin interface works just fine. How can I connect to a VM's console using a free-standing Spice viewer, such as the Chrome Spice Viewer plug-in? I've so far found no information on this at all. regards, John _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
The steps are: 1. Find the VM's UUID in the API https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms?search=VMNAME 2. Find the VM's current host and spice ports: https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/ Look for the <display> section - it will hold the host IP or FQDN, and the spice ports 3. Issue a spice ticket via https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/ticket 4. Connect with a spice client (remote-viewer or spicec) with the target being HOST:PORT and the ticket you issued as password All this can be scripted via the API or the engine CLI Hope this helps Dan On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:03 PM, John Gardeniers < jgardeniers@objectmastery.com> wrote:
Connecting to a VM console with Spice via the RHEV/Ovirt admin interface works just fine. How can I connect to a VM's console using a free-standing Spice viewer, such as the Chrome Spice Viewer plug-in? I've so far found no information on this at all.
regards, John
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030903030901020006000708 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for the info Dan. If that's what it takes I'll need to use a different method. The one you describe is not only very messy but extremely breakable and error prone (e.g. if the VM migrates to another host). regards, John On 11/10/14 02:02, Dan Yasny wrote:
The steps are: 1. Find the VM's UUID in the API https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms?search=VMNAME 2. Find the VM's current host and spice ports: https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/ Look for the <display> section - it will hold the host IP or FQDN, and the spice ports 3. Issue a spice ticket via https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/ticket 4. Connect with a spice client (remote-viewer or spicec) with the target being HOST:PORT and the ticket you issued as password
All this can be scripted via the API or the engine CLI
Hope this helps
Dan
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:03 PM, John Gardeniers <jgardeniers@objectmastery.com <mailto:jgardeniers@objectmastery.com>> wrote:
Connecting to a VM console with Spice via the RHEV/Ovirt admin interface works just fine. How can I connect to a VM's console using a free-standing Spice viewer, such as the Chrome Spice Viewer plug-in? I've so far found no information on this at all.
regards, John
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--------------030903030901020006000708 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Thanks for the info Dan. If that's what it takes I'll need to use a different method. The one you describe is not only very messy but extremely breakable and error prone (e.g. if the VM migrates to another host).<br> <br> regards,<br> John<br> <br> <br> <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/10/14 02:02, Dan Yasny wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CALLXwb72wU7aQHHcZy2RacvXn8PicMmF0R==3mUyeDkDb_dn8w@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">The steps are: <div>1. Find the VM's UUID in the API</div> <div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms?search=VMNAME">https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms?search=VMNAME</a><br> </div> <div>2. Find the VM's current host and spice ports:</div> <div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/">https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/</a> </div> <div>Look for the <display> section - it will hold the host IP or FQDN, and the spice ports<br> </div> <div>3. Issue a spice ticket via <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/ticket">https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/ticket</a></div> <div>4. Connect with a spice client (remote-viewer or spicec) with the target being HOST:PORT and the ticket you issued as password</div> <div><br> </div> <div>All this can be scripted via the API or the engine CLI</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Hope this helps</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Dan</div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:03 PM, John Gardeniers <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jgardeniers@objectmastery.com" target="_blank">jgardeniers@objectmastery.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Connecting to a VM console with Spice via the RHEV/Ovirt admin interface works just fine. How can I connect to a VM's console using a free-standing Spice viewer, such as the Chrome Spice Viewer plug-in? I've so far found no information on this at all.<br> <br> regards,<br> John<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Users mailing list<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">Users@ovirt.org</a><br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> <br clear="all"> ______________________________________________________________________<br> This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service.<br> For more information please visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.symanteccloud.com">http://www.symanteccloud.com</a><br> ______________________________________________________________________<br> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------030903030901020006000708--
Not really messy when scripted, each step is a small API command after all. This is what oVirt does when you connect, getting the data and populating the .vv file for you. So if the VM migrates in the instant it takes to get the info, the connection will fail, so you simply rerun the connect script. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:49 PM, John Gardeniers < jgardeniers@objectmastery.com> wrote:
Thanks for the info Dan. If that's what it takes I'll need to use a different method. The one you describe is not only very messy but extremely breakable and error prone (e.g. if the VM migrates to another host).
regards, John
On 11/10/14 02:02, Dan Yasny wrote:
The steps are: 1. Find the VM's UUID in the API https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms?search=VMNAME 2. Find the VM's current host and spice ports: https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/ Look for the <display> section - it will hold the host IP or FQDN, and the spice ports 3. Issue a spice ticket via https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/ticket 4. Connect with a spice client (remote-viewer or spicec) with the target being HOST:PORT and the ticket you issued as password
All this can be scripted via the API or the engine CLI
Hope this helps
Dan
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:03 PM, John Gardeniers < jgardeniers@objectmastery.com> wrote:
Connecting to a VM console with Spice via the RHEV/Ovirt admin interface works just fine. How can I connect to a VM's console using a free-standing Spice viewer, such as the Chrome Spice Viewer plug-in? I've so far found no information on this at all.
regards, John
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On 10/12/2014 02:49 AM, John Gardeniers wrote:
Thanks for the info Dan. If that's what it takes I'll need to use a different method. The one you describe is not only very messy but extremely breakable and error prone (e.g. if the VM migrates to another host).
regards, John
On 11/10/14 02:02, Dan Yasny wrote:
The steps are: 1. Find the VM's UUID in the API https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms?search=VMNAME 2. Find the VM's current host and spice ports: https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/ Look for the <display> section - it will hold the host IP or FQDN, and the spice ports 3. Issue a spice ticket via https://rhevm/ovirt-engine/api/vms/UUID/ticket 4. Connect with a spice client (remote-viewer or spicec) with the target being HOST:PORT and the ticket you issued as password
All this can be scripted via the API or the engine CLI
Hope this helps
Dan
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:03 PM, John Gardeniers <jgardeniers@objectmastery.com <mailto:jgardeniers@objectmastery.com>> wrote:
Connecting to a VM console with Spice via the RHEV/Ovirt admin interface works just fine. How can I connect to a VM's console using a free-standing Spice viewer, such as the Chrome Spice Viewer plug-in? I've so far found no information on this at all.
regards, John
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the ovirt cli console command should cover you?
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