[Users] HowTo: Spice ActiveX Plugin/Virt Viewer Console on oVirt 3.1
Itamar Heim
iheim at redhat.com
Wed Sep 12 20:49:59 UTC 2012
On 09/12/2012 05:21 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> This is awesome work, thank you so much for this! For our users and
> administrators, having a button you just click to get a console is sooo
> much easier than having to copy-paste a bunch of cryptic addresses and
> passwords, and having to use the infamous, dangerous hacker tool VNC:)
>
> I followed the wiki instructions and a vital piece missing is to restart
> ovirt-engine before trying to install the spice-client from the install
> portal. I went back and read through the email you first posted and the
> restart was mentioned there so I did and then it worked! Wohoo! So you
> might want to add that point to the wiki page as well, to avoid future
> confusion.
>
> But...when I have virt-viewer(-0.5.3) installed, log in to webadmin and
> click for console on a guest, the console shows up. But when I try to go
> into the console window with the mouse cursor, the cursor jumps off to
> one of the edges of my *monitor*, and not into the console window- as
> you would expect. Maybe virt-viewer mistakenly "thinks" that the edges
> of it´s window really are the edges of the whole monitor? Am I holding
> it wrong?
do you have spice guest side drivers for local mouse handling?
>
> /Karli
>
> 6 sep 2012 kl. 22.36 skrev Dead Horse:
>
>> Wiki page added. Feel free to change/edit/contribute or provide feedback.
>> Link:
>> http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal
>>
>> - DHC
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Robert Middleswarth
>> <robert at middleswarth.net <mailto:robert at middleswarth.net>> wrote:
>>
>> You should be able to create an ID. Once you create it several
>> people can update your account I am one of them.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> On 08/30/2012 11:17 PM, Dead Horse wrote:
>>> I would be happy to wiki'fy it ;)
>>> I have requested a wiki account so I will just need someone to
>>> grant the proper create/edit page access or create a stub page
>>> and allow edit access to it.
>>> - DHC
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Douglas Landgraf
>>> <dougsland at redhat.com <mailto:dougsland at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/30/2012 02:22 AM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Can you wiki'fy it (@ wiki.ovirt.org <http://wiki.ovirt.org/>) ?
>>>> Y.
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> I have seen this question asked many times on this list
>>>> and the spice-devel list. Now having figured out how to
>>>> make it work I will provide the answer to the rest of
>>>> the community.
>>>>
>>>> *NOTE* this only applies to Windows/Internet Explorer
>>>> users. There exists no other option other than the html5
>>>> spice console (still beta/in development) for windows
>>>> users ATM. This will also only work with Internet Explorer.
>>>>
>>>> Basic Steps:
>>>> - Install an oVirt server.
>>>> - Add at least one node
>>>> - Setup storage/iso/export domains
>>>>
>>>> Advanced steps
>>>> - Start by downloading:
>>>> http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/spice.cab
>>>> - Create a directory for it oVirt looks by default in
>>>> /usr/share/spice
>>>> - Rename spice.cab to SpiceX.cab and copy it into
>>>> /usr/share/spice
>>>> - Now edit
>>>> /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/root.war/WEB-INF and
>>>> add the following:
>>>>
>>>> <!-- SpiceX.cab -->
>>>> <servlet>
>>>> <servlet-name>SpiceX.cab</servlet-name>
>>>>
>>>> <servlet-class>org.ovirt.engine.core.FileServlet</servlet-class>
>>>> <init-param>
>>>> <param-name>type</param-name>
>>>> <param-value>application/octet-stream</param-value>
>>>> </init-param>
>>>> <init-param>
>>>> <param-name>file</param-name>
>>>> <param-value>/usr/share/spice/SpiceX.cab</param-value>
>>>> </init-param>
>>>> </servlet>
>>>> <servlet-mapping>
>>>> <servlet-name>SpiceX.cab</servlet-name>
>>>> <url-pattern>/spice/SpiceX.cab</url-pattern>
>>>> </servlet-mapping>
>>>>
>>>> - Next create an html file within
>>>> /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/root.war
>>>> - In the example below an html file called "spice.html"
>>>> - Copy/Paste the below into spice.html:
>>>>
>>>> <!DOCTYPE html>
>>>> <html>
>>>> <head>
>>>> <title>SPICE Plugin Installer</title>
>>>>
>>>> <script type="text/javascript">
>>>> function installSpice()
>>>> {
>>>> try {
>>>> document.getElementById('SpiceX').innerHTML =
>>>> '<OBJECT id="SpiceX" codebase="/spice/SpiceX.cab"
>>>> classid="clsid:ACD6D89C-938D-49B4-8E81-DDBD13F4B48A"
>>>> width="0" height="0"></OBJECT>';
>>>> } catch (ex) {
>>>> alert("Epic Fail!: " + ex.Description);
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> </script>
>>>>
>>>> </head>
>>>> <body>
>>>> <p>
>>>> <p><b id='SpiceX'>Spice ActiveX Plugin</b> </p>
>>>> <button onclick='installSpice()'>Install Spice
>>>> Plugin</button>
>>>> </p>
>>>> </body>
>>>> </html>
>>>>
>>>> - Save the file
>>>> - You will now need to restart the ovirt-engine service
>>>> EG: systemctl restart ovirt-engine.service OR service
>>>> ovirt-engine restart
>>>> - The installer page will now be available at
>>>> http://<url to ovirt server>/spice.html EX:
>>>> http://ovirt.azeroth.net/spice.html
>>>> - Navigate to that page and click the install button
>>>> - IE will prompt you to deploy/install the SpiceX
>>>> cabinet file
>>>> - It may gripe about an unsigned or untrusted source,
>>>> acknowledge this an proceed anyways
>>>> - If the install succeeds the text "Spice ActiveX
>>>> Plugin" on the page will change to blank (it's actually
>>>> the plugin with null values)
>>>> - The console button in the user and webadmin portals
>>>> will now launch the new virt-viwer spice based console!
>>>>
>>>> Happy Spice Consoling to your VM's from Windows!
>>>>
>>>> *NOTE*
>>>> To uninstall the plugin:
>>>> - The below removes the add-on from IE (EG: removes
>>>> knowledge of "application/x-spice")
>>>> - pop a command terminal and type:
>>>> On Windows XP: regsvr32 /u "C:\Documents and
>>>> Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application
>>>> Data\virt-viewer\bin\SpiceX.dll"
>>>> On Windows 7 regsvr32 /u C:\Documents and
>>>> Settings\Administrator\Local
>>>> Settings\AppData\virt-viewer\bin\SpiceX.dll"
>>>> - Next we need to remove the rest of virt-viewer
>>>> - Go to add/remove programs and uninstall virt-viewer,
>>>> this removes the rest of virt-viewer from the system
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers
>>> Douglas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Thanks
>> Robert Middleswarth
>> @rmiddle (twitter/Freenode IRC)
>> @RobertM (OFTC IRC)
>>
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