[Users] HowTo: Spice ActiveX Plugin/Virt Viewer Console on oVirt 3.1

Thu Aug 30 20:03:33 UTC 2012

On 08/30/2012 02:22 AM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> Thanks!
> Can you wiki'fy it (@ wiki.ovirt.org) ?
> Y.
+1

Thanks!
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     I have seen this question asked many times on this list and the
>     spice-devel list. Now having figured out how to make it work I
>     will provide the answer to the rest of the community.
>
>     *NOTE* this only applies to Windows/Internet Explorer users. There
>     exists no other option other than the html5 spice console (still
>     beta/in development) for windows users ATM. This will also only
>     work with Internet Explorer.
>
>     Basic Steps:
>     - Install an oVirt server.
>     - Add at least one node
>     - Setup storage/iso/export domains
>
>     Advanced steps
>     - Start by downloading: http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/spice.cab
>     - Create a directory for it oVirt looks by default in /usr/share/spice
>     - Rename spice.cab to SpiceX.cab and copy it into /usr/share/spice
>     - Now edit /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/root.war/WEB-INF and
>     add the following:
>
>     <!-- SpiceX.cab -->
>     <servlet>
>     <servlet-name>SpiceX.cab</servlet-name>
>     <servlet-class>org.ovirt.engine.core.FileServlet</servlet-class>
>     <init-param>
>     <param-name>type</param-name>
>     <param-value>application/octet-stream</param-value>
>     </init-param>
>     <init-param>
>     <param-name>file</param-name>
>     <param-value>/usr/share/spice/SpiceX.cab</param-value>
>     </init-param>
>     </servlet>
>     <servlet-mapping>
>     <servlet-name>SpiceX.cab</servlet-name>
>     <url-pattern>/spice/SpiceX.cab</url-pattern>
>     </servlet-mapping>
>
>     - Next create an html file within
>     /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/root.war
>     - In the example below an html file called "spice.html"
>     - Copy/Paste the below into spice.html:
>
>     <!DOCTYPE html>
>     <html>
>     <head>
>     <title>SPICE Plugin Installer</title>
>
>     <script type="text/javascript">
>     function installSpice()
>     {
>     try {
>         document.getElementById('SpiceX').innerHTML = '<OBJECT
>     id="SpiceX" codebase="/spice/SpiceX.cab"
>     classid="clsid:ACD6D89C-938D-49B4-8E81-DDBD13F4B48A" width="0"
>     height="0"></OBJECT>';
>         } catch (ex) {
>             alert("Epic Fail!: " + ex.Description);
>         }
>     }
>     </script>
>
>     </head>
>     <body>
>     <p>
>     <p><b id='SpiceX'>Spice ActiveX Plugin</b> </p>
>     <button onclick='installSpice()'>Install Spice Plugin</button>
>     </p>
>     </body>
>     </html>
>
>     - Save the file
>     - You will now need to restart the ovirt-engine service EG:
>     systemctl restart ovirt-engine.service OR service ovirt-engine restart
>     - The installer page will now be available at http://<url to ovirt
>     server>/spice.html EX: http://ovirt.azeroth.net/spice.html
>     - Navigate to that page and click the install button
>     - IE will prompt you to deploy/install the SpiceX cabinet file
>     - It may gripe about an unsigned or untrusted source, acknowledge
>     this an proceed anyways
>     - If the install succeeds the text "Spice ActiveX Plugin" on the
>     page will change to blank (it's actually the plugin with null values)
>     - The console button in the user and webadmin portals will now
>     launch the new virt-viwer spice based console!
>
>     Happy Spice Consoling to your VM's from Windows!
>
>     *NOTE*
>     To uninstall the plugin:
>     - The below removes the add-on from IE (EG: removes knowledge of
>     "application/x-spice")
>     - pop a command terminal and type:
>     On Windows XP: regsvr32 /u "C:\Documents and
>     Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application
>     Data\virt-viewer\bin\SpiceX.dll"
>     On Windows 7 regsvr32 /u C:\Documents and
>     Settings\Administrator\Local
>     Settings\AppData\virt-viewer\bin\SpiceX.dll"
>     - Next we need to remove the rest of virt-viewer
>     - Go to add/remove programs and uninstall virt-viewer, this
>     removes the rest of virt-viewer from the system
>
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Cheers
Douglas

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