[Users] Can anyone help? Spice not connecting - I have spice-xpi installed.

[Andrew Cathrow]

The webui will write out a hostname and port number to connect to.
Can your client resolve the ovirt node's name?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Morgan Cox" <morgancoxuk at gmail.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00:02 PM
> Subject: [Users] Can anyone help? Spice not connecting - I have spice-xpi	installed.
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have been trying for hours to install a vm in Ovirt and having no
> joy., Spice is not working - I just get a black popup window
> 
> I am connecting from a Fedora16 desktop - I have spice-XPI installed.
> can see 'press Shift+f12' to release mouse.... etc.
> 
> My setup :-
> 
> I have a 3 server setup
> - 1. Ovirt engine (Lan address + external address)
> - 2. Storage node - NFS server (LAN address and external address)
> - 3. Ovirt node (from the node .iso) - only LAN address
> 
> The Engine server is a default FC16 install. the node is from the
> ovirt node .iso.
> 
> I don't think its firewall related - I tried disabling firewalls on
> all servers.
> 
> Once I try spice the icon is greyed out afterwards.
> 
> In IRC it was suggested to run Bind from server 1 - I have done that
> and added DNS entrys in the LAN range for all 3 servers - all 3
> servers are using bind from server1 as their only nameserver in
> resolv.conf
> 
> I am trying to connect from my Fedora16 Desktop
> 
> When I try to connect I see in /var/log/messages
> 
> Mar 1 19:34:43 fedora16 spice: Warning: failed to connect: Connection
> timed out (110)
> 
> Any ideas how to investigate this further.
> 
> I am dying to test out a VM but with no spice I am presently unable
> to...
> 
> Any ideas will be welcomed - i'm 1/2 thinking about re-installing
> with all external ips (but that will make transfer speeds slower..)
> 
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