[Users] How to connect VNC console ?

[Itamar Heim]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf
Of Phattanon Duangdara
> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 0:19 AM
> To: Ryan Harper
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] How to connect VNC console ?
>
> 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.

Either that, or a VNC XPI/CAB, or a novnc solution.
The "get VNC connection details" would be the easiest one to implement if
anyone is interested in pushing this.

I'll just add some color on why it isn't there already:
1. the previous console was windows c# and had a bundled vnc exe with it.
2. the user portal was designed for VDI originally, so it only had spice
(and rdp for windows clients) support.


>
> 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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> > Ryan Harper
> > Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
> > IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
> > ryanh at us.ibm.com
> >
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