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

[Karli Sjöberg]

28 nov 2012 kl. 13.05 skrev 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
> 

Heh, you´re right, it does work, but only when using CentOS-Fedora/FF. The problem I´m having is with Win7/IE. It does however work to get spice console in the admin portal, strangely enough, but we won´t allow our customers using the admin portal just to get access to their consoles. I would like to have it work with Windows/IE in Userportal as well.