[Users] How to connect VNC console ?

[Phattanon Duangdara]

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 at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> * Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> [2011-12-02 14:25]:
>> > > From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at 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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