[Users] Unable to access remote console in User portal from IE/Windows7

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/28/2012 01:12 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
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> 27 nov 2012 kl. 20.30 skrev Itamar Heim:
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>> On 11/27/2012 11:53 AM, nasir nasir wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have been experimenting with Ovirt 3.1 and so far most of the things
>>> work. Many thanks indeed for this great free software! Now I am facing
>>> an issue for accessing the remote console in User Portal from windows 7
>>> client using IE9. I am able to login to the User Portal and access the
>>> VM using the console button from Linux. But while I try the same from a
>>> windows 7 machine, it is NOT working. When I click on the console
>>> button, it doesn't pop any window or show anything. Some of the docs I
>>> read says that for the first time, I would be greeted with an ActiveX
>>> warning and can install the same to get the console. But I didnt get
>>> anything of that kind. So my questions to you all are,
>>>
>>> -- Is User Portal and Console supported on Windows platform ?
>>> -- If supported, is there anything  needed to be installed on the
>>> Windows machine from which I am trying to access the User Portal ?( I
>>> did install spice-guest-tools-0.exe on both VM and the Windows machine I
>>> am trying to access the User Portal)
>>> -- If not supported, what is the recommended way of accessing VMs from
>>> windows clients ? I understand that the firefox spice-xpi plugin is only
>>> for Linux.
>>>
>>> Relevant info,
>>>
>>> --OS : CentOS 6.3 64 bit
>>> -- ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-allinone-3.1.0-3.28.el6.noarch.rpm
>>> (Actually I used the repo from http://www.dreyou.org/ovirt/ , )
>>> -- Client from which I am trying to access: Windows 7 (32bit), IE 9
>>>
>>> Any reply would be highly appreciated and I would be more than happy to
>>> send any further details if needed. I searched a lot for any relevant
>>> docs for the same but could not find anything.
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>> Nasir
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>> http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal
>
> Too bad there´s still the bug in UserPortal that forgets to pass on the address to which the console should connect, so it won´t work any way...

do you have the bz number?