[Users] spice issues preventing me using Ovirt (not been able to test it yet) - Is it possible to use VNC ?

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/21/2012 05:30 PM, Morgan Cox wrote:
> Hi
>
> For the last few weeks I have been tried to test Ovirt - but am failing
> due to spice not working...
>
> I have created a bugzilla ticket about my spice issues
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805552
>
> At the minute spice just doesn't work for me - I have tried
> from multiple desktops - (1 FC16 1 opensuse 12.1) - both have the same
> spice versions (spice-xpi, etc).
>
> All I want to do really is see Ovirt working, can I use VNC or is that a
> WIP?
>
> If I select VNC in Ovirt how do I connect (the spice icon is greyed out)
>
> Or (preferred) can anyone help me with spice?
>
> Regards

and until spice is figured out, you can use vnc.
but you need to open the vnc yourself after setting a ticket to the vm 
through the api (or use the ovirt cli console command which will do this 
for you)
(iirc, michael pasternak referenced this a few days ago in users@ 
mailing list - but i can't look it up right now)