[Users] mouse problem with muiltiple monitors (was HowTo: Spice ActiveX Plugin/Virt Viewer Console on oVirt 3.1)
Itamar Heim
iheim at redhat.com
Thu Sep 13 09:26:31 UTC 2012
On 09/13/2012 10:24 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
>
> 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?
cc-ing spice-devel to see if they have insights on your issue
>
> /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
>> <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!
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------__------------------------------__------------
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> <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
>> <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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