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

Wed Nov 28 14:17:28 UTC 2012

Karli Sjöberg píše v St 28. 11. 2012 v 14:12 +0000:
> 28 nov 2012 kl. 15.08 skrev 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?
> 
> Absolutely. How do I set that debugging in the windows spice client?

remote-viewer logs are currently quite hard to get, activex log should have enough info to pinpoint the exact error.

David

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