[Users] Spice plugin for firefox

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/03/2012 05:45 PM, Spyro Polymiadis wrote:
> Coolio! Ran the following on the hypervisor...
>
> vdsClient localhost list (to get the VMid)
> then
> vdsClient localhost setVmTicket ad5a9f92-dda4-421d-bc6b-b22dd6598121 abcd1234 300
> to set the password for 300 seconds
> then spicec --host ovirt-testvm --port 5900 --password abcd1234

using vdsClient is a hack.
the documented approached is using the engine REST API to do this, not 
access the host.
from rhev-m documentation:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.0/html/REST_API_Guide/sect-REST_API_Guide-VMs-Ticket.html

and you should be able to use the ovirt-cli to do this from command line 
to do this.

>
> FTW :)
>
> Needs to be documented better IMO :)
>
> ----- 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: Saturday, 4 February, 2012 12:45:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Spice plugin for firefox
>
> 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...
>
>>
>> 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).
>