[Users] Spice plugin for firefox

[Spyro Polymiadis]

Thanks Itamar - thats very useful information

Ill try and find information on how to "set a password"
Its basically a bog standard installation - is there no password normally? Is the password required only for connecting to the console via the command line spicec client?
How does the IE/Firefox spice plugin work in this case - as it doesnt prompt for any passowrd..

I would have assumed that the console session (weather using spice or vnc) would load with no password - similar to how console sessions work in vSphere, KVM and proxmox (which also uses vnc)

The jittery mouse - yes i was rdp-ing to my windows VM to load IE.. ill ty it from a physical windows machine

With my other question - how would you determine which VM you are "consoling" if there are more than 1 on a hypervisor.

Cheers
Spyro


----- Original Message -----
From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
To: "Spyro Polymiadis" <spyro at rsp.com.au>
Cc: "Arnon Gilboa" <agilboa at redhat.com>, "Alon Levy" <alevy at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
Sent: Friday, 3 February, 2012 8:59:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] Spice plugin for firefox

On 02/03/2012 09:08 AM, Spyro Polymiadis wrote:
> hrmm after some digging i came across this on the hypervisor when i try
> and launch spicec...
>
> /var/log/libvirt/qemu/vm1.log
>
> reds_handle_read_link_done: Peer doesn't support AUTH selection
>
> maybe ill blow that VM away and create a new one...see if that helps

to cover your first question, yes, spice-xpi works well for me from a 
fedora 15 machine using default spice packages of fedora.

you need to set the password to connect to spice (just like for VNC).
since it by default expires after a while, it is called a ticket.
you can use the rest API/SDK/CLI to set the ticket.

as for mouse being jittery in IE - do you happen to use it via an RDP 
session (if so, try not to nest clients).