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

Robert Middleswarth robert at middleswarth.net
Fri Aug 31 04:05:29 UTC 2012


You should be able to create an ID. Once you create it several people 
can update your account I am one of them.

Thanks
Robert

On 08/30/2012 11:17 PM, Dead Horse wrote:
> 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 <mailto:dougsland at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/30/2012 02:22 AM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>>     Thanks!
>>     Can you wiki'fy it (@ wiki.ovirt.org <http://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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