[Users] Can't open ovirt console using Spice or VNC - help!
Karli Sjöberg
Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se
Mon Feb 10 03:12:34 EST 2014
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 19:00 -0500, Drew Showers wrote:
> I did not see that and it works, thank you!
Glad it worked!
> Looks like I need some UI driver help though.
>
>
> Running the script actually helped me get to the root cause... Can't
> access the host name error. Of course it couldn't, I don't expose that
> host name outside the ovirt network. I was on my wireless network.
> Once I plugged into the ovirt net it worked. Duh!
>
>
> Do you know of any spice graphic packages that don't need to be
> compiled?
What´s the guest? Windows?
>
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> wrote:
>
> Den 9 feb 2014 20:00 skrev Drew Showers <drew at augurworks.com>:
>
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm a nube with ovirt, but have the ovirt-engine and 1
> remote host up and running (separate physical servers, same
> subnet). The network, DNS. NFS all work. I can create VM's,
> install the ISO OS with no problems. Here is were I get
> stuck.
> >
> > After a frustrating few hours trying to get a console to
> launch on my mac,
> Have you seen this?
>
> http://www.ovirt.org/SPICE_Remote-Viewer_on_OS_X
>
> /Karli
>
> I broke down and created a new Centos 6.4 Desktop VM using
> Fusion. I've installed -
> >
> > spice-xpi (yum install spice-xpi)
> > virt-manager (yum install virt-manager)
> >
> > Using Firefox, if I try to open the console from the ovirt
> admin using Spice browser plugin or native client options,
> nothing happens (no errors either), other than message saying
> the user is initiating a console session.
> >
> > If using VNC, then it wants to either download the
> console.vv or open it with the default viewer, which throws
> and error "Unable to connect to the graphics server file"
> >
> > So, I'm stuck in going any further until I get this worked
> out. No VM IP or host name (unless I'm missing something)...
> I actually find this quite unfriendly. I know similar issues
> have been discussed previously, but none have solved my
> problem. BTW: I'm running Centos 6.5 on both the engine and
> host.
> >
> > I'm not sure if I'm missing additional packages or what. Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Drew
>
>
>
>
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