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

[David Jaša]

Karli Sjöberg píše v St 28. 11. 2012 v 13:56 +0000:
> 28 nov 2012 kl. 14.44 skrev Itamar Heim:
> 
> > On 11/28/2012 08:27 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> >> 
> >> 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
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>>>>> Users mailing list
> >>>>>>>> Users at ovirt.org
> >>>>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 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.
> >> 
> > 
> > the commit is "user portal: ...", so i'm kind of surprised.
> > are you sure its not another issue?
> > 
> 
> I never said it was that specific issue, David Jaša did. May be a new one, I don´t know, I´m just a poor old sysadmin who can´t give console to his customers:)

Karli, could you set SPICEX_DEBUG_LEVEL environment variable to 0 (zero), try to connect, and look at %TEMP%\spicex.log that the connection values are the correct ones?

David

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