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

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/28/2012 05:47 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
>
> 28 nov 2012 kl. 10.15 skrev Itamar Heim:
>
>> On 11/28/2012 01:12 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
>>>
>>> 27 nov 2012 kl. 20.30 skrev Itamar Heim:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>
> Sure: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839548
>

this was backported to ovirt engine 3.1 prior to its release?
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine.git;a=shortlog;h=refs%2Fheads%2Fengine_3.1