[Users] Spice plugin for firefox

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/03/2012 04:04 PM, Spyro Polymiadis wrote:
> 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..

the webadmin and user portal will do this for you, and pass the options 
to the spice client.

>
> 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)

that would not be secure...

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

so you can see this works when using the integrated solution (btw, which 
spice activex did you use for IE?)
but spice from vnc has issues with the mouse.

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

the port you connect to. each vm has a different port. the engine gives 
you these details in the api.

>
> 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).