[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
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From: "Jon Forrest" <nobozo@gmail.com> To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:06:56 PM Subject: [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
Thanks Jon for writing this. It's always useful for folks seeking help. Generally speaking, starting version 3.3 you should have HTML 5 support, which means a new tab will open with the VM's console. http://www.ovirt.org/Features/SpiceHTML5
Jon Forrest <nobozo@...> writes:
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
Hi, I have one problem with that. I believe that the problem is rather in oVirt, not the viewer. I have oVirt installed at work and I also have connection to the work environment using IPv6 tunnelling (Windows WAN). In the oVirt all hosts are added using FQDN. The problem is that all hosts in the LAN (inside the company) are resolved via IPv4 and the same FQDN is resolved via IPv6 when I'm connected via WAN. In the console.vv file I can see the IPv4 address unfortunately and the connection to the console via WAN is not working. If I change the file putting FQDN to the "host=" line everything is working fine. How to change the oVirt? I'd prefer that the line "host=" contains the FQDN (or whatever is being put in the engine database) not the IP address? Regards, Daniel
On Oct 13, 2014, at 11:11 , Daniel Abrich <daniel@abrich.eu> wrote:
Jon Forrest <nobozo@...> writes:
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
Hi, I have one problem with that. I believe that the problem is rather in oVirt, not the viewer. I have oVirt installed at work and I also have connection to the work environment using IPv6 tunnelling (Windows WAN). In the oVirt all hosts are added using FQDN. The problem is that all hosts in the LAN (inside the company) are resolved via IPv4 and the same FQDN is resolved via IPv6 when I'm connected via WAN. In the console.vv file I can see the IPv4 address unfortunately and the connection to the console via WAN is not working. If I change the file putting FQDN to the "host=" line everything is working fine.
How to change the oVirt? I'd prefer that the line "host=" contains the FQDN (or whatever is being put in the engine database) not the IP address?
there's a Display address override per host where you can map each host's console address to something else; some other IP or FQDN you just need to set it for all hosts Thanks, michal
Regards,
Daniel
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--=_3bcfb5df1431f46a1aeb88e92d482a89 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 That works perfect! Thanks a lot! --- Pozdrawiam / With best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Daniel Abrich Mob: +48 600 777 234 daniel@abrich.eu W dniu 2014-10-13 16:58, Michal Skrivanek napisał(a):
On Oct 13, 2014, at 11:11 , Daniel Abrich <daniel@abrich.eu> wrote: Jon Forrest <nobozo@...> writes: 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/ [1]). 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 FilesVirtViewerbinremote-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 Hi, I have one problem with that. I believe that the problem is rather in oVirt, not the viewer. I have oVirt installed at work and I also have connection to the work environment using IPv6 tunnelling (Windows WAN). In the oVirt all hosts are added using FQDN. The problem is that all hosts in the LAN (inside the company) are resolved via IPv4 and the same FQDN is resolved via IPv6 when I'm connected via WAN. In the console.vv file I can see the IPv4 address unfortunately and the connection to the console via WAN is not working. If I change the file putting FQDN to the "host=" line everything is working fine. How to change the oVirt? I'd prefer that the line "host=" contains the FQDN (or whatever is being put in the engine database) not the IP address?
there's a Display address override per host where you can map each host's console address to something else; some other IP or FQDN you just need to set it for all hosts Thanks, michal
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Links: ------ [1] http://virt-manager.org/download/ [2] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users --=_3bcfb5df1431f46a1aeb88e92d482a89 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><body style=3D'font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif'> <p>That works perfect! Thanks a lot!</p> <p> </p> <div>---<br /> <pre><span style=3D"font-size: small;"><span style=3D"font-family: tahoma,a= rial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pozdrawiam / With best regards / Mit freundlich= en Grüßen</span></span></pre> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size: small;"><span style=3D"fon= t-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Daniel Abrich</span></s= pan></span></p> <pre><span style=3D"font-size: small;"><span style=3D"font-family: tahoma,a= rial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mob: +48 600 777 234<br />daniel= @abrich.eu</span></span></pre> </div> <p>W dniu 2014-10-13 16:58, Michal Skrivanek napisa=C5=82(a):</p> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2p= x solid; margin-left:5px"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignored --><!-- me= ta ignored --> <pre>On Oct 13, 2014, at 11:11 , Daniel Abrich <<a href=3D"mailto:daniel= @abrich.eu">daniel@abrich.eu</a>> wrote:</pre> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2p= x solid; margin-left:5px">Jon Forrest <nobozo@...> writes: <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2p= x solid; margin-left:5px">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 fina= lly 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 d= ifferent in ovirt than on VMWare. I then spent over an hour trying the vari= ous documented ways to view a remote console using Spice on my Windows 7 de= sktop. 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 Wi= ndows client (<a href=3D"http://virt-manager.org/download/">http://virt-man= ager.org/download/</a>). 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 n= ew VM. Pretty soon the little console icon turned green so I clicked on it= =2E 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 browse= d around and selected \Program Files\VirtViewer\bin\remote-viewer.exe which= is from the virt-viewer client package I installed above. I told Firefox t= o always use this app for this kind of file. This works great! I was able t= o boot the CentOS system and install it with no problems. Good luck! Jon Fo= rrest</blockquote> Hi, I have one problem with that. I believe that the problem is rather in o= Virt, not the viewer. I have oVirt installed at work and I also have connec= tion to the work environment using IPv6 tunnelling (Windows WAN). In the oV= irt all hosts are added using FQDN. The problem is that all hosts in the LA= N (inside the company) are resolved via IPv4 and the same FQDN is resolved = via IPv6 when I'm connected via WAN. In the console.vv file I can see the I= Pv4 address unfortunately and the connection to the console via WAN is not = working. If I change the file putting FQDN to the "host=3D" line everything= is working fine. How to change the oVirt? I'd prefer that the line "host= =3D" contains the FQDN (or whatever is being put in the engine database) no= t the IP address?</blockquote> <pre>there's a Display address override per host where you can map each hos= t's console address to something else; some other IP or FQDN you just need to set it for all hosts Thanks, michal</pre> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2p= x solid; margin-left:5px">Regards, Daniel _________________________________= ______________ Users mailing list <a href=3D"mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@= ovirt.org</a> <a href=3D"http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">htt= p://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a></blockquote> </blockquote> </body></html> --=_3bcfb5df1431f46a1aeb88e92d482a89--
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