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.

> From: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] On

> > 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

> 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

> the oVirt supported display mode is spice. You may have an easier

> 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

* Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; [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). > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ryanh(a)us.ibm.com

-----Original Message----- From: Ryan Harper [mailto:ryanh@us.ibm.com] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 23:15 PM To: Itamar Heim Cc: 'Adam Litke'; 'Phattanon Duangdara'; users(a)ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] How to connect VNC console ? * Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; [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

> > > > I just finished setup oVirt on FC16 (same host run vdsmd) > > > > > > > > I can start VM but cannot connect console using VNC. No

> > > > 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

> > > > console. > > > > > > VDSM has a SetVmTicket API that you can use to set a VNC password.

> 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).