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

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/28/2012 08:27 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
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> 28 nov 2012 kl. 13.05 skrev Itamar Heim:
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>> On 11/28/2012 05:47 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
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>>> 28 nov 2012 kl. 10.15 skrev Itamar Heim:
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>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Sure: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839548
>>>
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>> 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
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> 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.
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the commit is "user portal: ...", so i'm kind of surprised.
  are you sure its not another issue?