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

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/28/2012 09:12 AM, nasir nasir 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...
>
>  >>/Karli
>
> Thanks for sharing the documentation. Actually due to the lack of good
> documentation for Ovirt, I was following RHEV guides along with ovirt
> guides and hence  missed out this one. I followed the above link
> exactly(well, I think so :-) ) and still I could not get it done
> properly. When I click on the install plugin button using the URL
> http://my_ovirt_server/spice.html from the windows 7 machine which I was
> using to access the User Portal  , it is giving me a warning message by
> the browser asking whether you want to install it or not (which is
> expected ). But when I click to install, nothing happens. So I manually
> installed using the virt-viewer exe file which I had got by extracting
> the spice.cab file and I am able to access the console without any
> problem. This is OK for the time being as I can access the console from
> user portal after installing the ActiveX/spice plugins manually though I
> would strongly prefer the deployment model whereby users can click and
> install the plugins on the fly as described in the above link.

adding spice-list to try and help