[Users] Console not coming up .

[Juan Hernandez]

On 04/13/2012 12:19 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> On 04/13/2012 05:50 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 04/12/2012 06:08 PM, Rahul Upadhyaya wrote:
>>> Ok, One more thing. I have been using the manager in Administrator
>>> Portal (no SSL) <http://fedora-ovirt.vmm.hp.com:8080/webadmin>  mode...
>>> I mean I have not set up SSL (IPA and Active Directory). Could this be
>>
>> how SSL is related to IPA and Active Directory in this context?
>>
>>> possibly the reason why I am facing Issues with Spice Console. Does
>>> Spice use only SSL during connection or can it run without SSL.
>>
>> unless you disabled SSL for hosts/spice via config - ssl is configured 
>> by default.
>> though i'm not sure this is the issue.
>>
>>>
>>> I did not the command from which spice window can be started from
>>> ovirt-shell... can you tell me the command/share reference.
>>
>> juan - care to jump in here, as this is a common question, maybe even 
>> worth a wiki example in the cli wiki.
> 
> The command to use the console is just "console myvm":
> 
> ovirt-shell --connect --url http://host.example.com:8080/api --user
> admin at internal --password letmein!
> [oVirt shell (connected)]# console myserver
> 
> That should launch the spice command with the right parameters. Make
> sure you have the spice-client package installed.
> 
> If it does not work it may be because the latest version of the CLI
> requires SSL (that is probably a bug). If this is your case please apply
> the following change to the file
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovirtcli/platform/posix/spice.py:
> 
> ---
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovirtcli/platform/posix/spice.py.old
> 2012-04-13 12:12:31.638976451 +0200
> +++ /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovirtcli/platform/posix/spice.py
> 2012-04-13 12:13:00.306969571 +0200
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
>          args = [ 'spicec', host, str(port), str(secport), '--ssl-channels',
>                   'smain,sinputs', '--ca-file', certfile, '-p', ticket ]
>      else:
> -        args = [ 'spicec', '-h', host, '-p', str(port), '-s', str(secport),
> +        args = [ 'spicec', '-h', host, '-p', str(port),
>                   '-w', ticket, '-t', title ]
>      print(cmd)
>      print(args)
> 
> That will remove the "-s" option when calling spicec, so it should work
> without SSL. I will open a bug for this and start to work on a proper
> solution.
> 
> Let me know if this workaround works for you.

This is the bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/812299

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