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

Fri Aug 31 03:17:02 UTC 2012

I would be happy to wiki'fy it ;)
I have requested a wiki account so I will just need someone to grant the
proper create/edit page access or create a stub page and allow edit access
to it.
- DHC

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Douglas Landgraf <dougsland at redhat.com>wrote:

>  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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