[Users] Can't open ovirt console using Spice or VNC - help!
Karli Sjöberg
Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se
Tue Feb 11 01:27:21 EST 2014
On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 12:04 -0500, Drew Showers wrote:
> The guest is MacOS 10.8.5. or CentOS 6.4.
Now I´m confused. By guest, I meant Virtual Machine guest, not your PC.
And by graphic packages, I was assuming you meant graphics _driver_
packages. Are we on the same track this far?
/K
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> wrote:
> 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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