[Users] 3.2 final and status of spice console in ie

[Michal Skrivanek]

On 20 Feb 2013, at 23:52, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
>> Hi,
>> did you follow http://wiki.ovirt.org/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> michal
> 
> Ok, I was able to install and run the spice plugin on my system with
> WIndows 7 (64bit) and Internet Explorer 9
> It seems from first tests that it works quite well (tested only with
> Windows XP VM right now)
> 
> I took the time to change two small things on the wiki page:
Thanks!

> 
> - WEB_INF --> WEB-INF
> - Changed the note regarding spice servlet this way:
> NOTE the file web.xml is part of ovirt-engine-backend rpm;  in oVirt
> 3.2 the <servlet> definition for SpiceX.cab is already in place
> 
> Also, inside the section regarding portals I noticed that the file
> /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/root.war/index.html
> 
> is different from what written into the wiki... I didn't change it
> yet, in case you want to retain some sort of 3.1 compatibility...
> In case let me know and I'll update that too.
I'd go ahead and change it, no need to keep obsolete information

> 
> Some notes regarding installation
> 
> - added link to spice page in portals main page
> - click on it
> - click on button "install spice"
> - accept activeX install
> 
> apparently at this point nothing happened.. I waited a couple of
> minutes.. no virtviewer entry in allprograms section
> Then I tried to open a spice console and again I got the message
> regarding the plugin, accept and then got the install window
> So now I can click again on spice console button of the vm and spice
> console fires up...
> 
> I'm going to try with another windows 7 (32bit) system and document better...
> 
> Note: I also got the "  Error: A Request to the Server failed with the
> following Status Code: 400" window; probably due to the first spice
> console access that implied true installation of plugin...
Yeah, the download may take quite some time and there's no feedback. 
Well,I hope people will eventualy give up on IE;) The xpi plugin, MIME file, and HTML5 client would replace ActiveX in the future well enough

Thanks,
michal

> 
> Gianluca