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

Thu Nov 29 10:19:23 UTC 2012

29 nov 2012 kl. 10.20 skrev David Jaša:

> Karli Sjöberg píše v Čt 29. 11. 2012 v 07:59 +0000:
>> 28 nov 2012 kl. 15.17 skrev David Jaša:
>> 
>>> 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
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
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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.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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.
>> 
>> OK, I´ll try that. Where is that log located exactly?
> 
> as I already stated, at %TEMP%\spicex.log . Please don't forget to set SPICEX_DEBUG_LEVEL=0 environment variable, without it, the log won't be much useful.

Right. So how do I set "SPICEX_DEBUG_LEVEL=0"?

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