[Users] HowTo: Spice ActiveX Plugin/Virt Viewer Console on oVirt 3.1
Karli Sjöberg
Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se
Thu Sep 13 07:24:06 UTC 2012
13 sep 2012 kl. 01.21 skrev Dead Horse:
Thank you! glad to be able to help ;)
As Itamar mentioned if you are running the spice client inside a VM (dunno if this is case) you will need the guest paravirtual driver and/or services for mouse handling. I have observed exactly this behavior before when running the spice client in a VM when the guest tools/drivers for mouse handling are not present (In my case most of the time VirtualBox).
Very amusing "bug":) But cripples SPICE´s usage.
I have tested this from 5 different physical machines running Win7/IE, and this behavior shows itself only on machines with more than one monitor, or a laptop with another monitor attached .e.g. These guest tools you both mention, would these be "http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/spice-guest-tools-0.1.exe"? And can you install them in a physical machine as well?
/Karli
- DHC
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com<mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
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> <mailto: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> <mailto: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/> <http://wiki.ovirt.org/>) ?
Y.
+1
Thanks!
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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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