[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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> Douglas
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