[Users] test day help -- console

[Michal Skrivanek]

On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:15, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme at redhat.com> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan at redhat.com>
>> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:12:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] test day help -- console
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>> 
>> On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:08, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan at redhat.com>
>>>> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:43:18 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Users] test day help -- console
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 11 Feb 2014, at 23:57, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I'm having a tough time getting a VM console working via VNC. I set a VM
>>>>> to
>>>>> use VNC, and I installed virt-viewer.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. When I try to open a .vv file with virt-viewer, I get an error "Cannot
>>>>> find guest domain /var/tmp/console.vv"
>>>> 
>>>> Old virt-viewer. Where did you get it from?
>>> 
>>> It came with F20. I'm on F20 and don't think many other people are. Is it a
>>> regression?
>>> 
>>> greg at dauntless:~$ yum list installed virt-viewer
>>> Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
>>> google-chrome
>>> 3/3
>>> google-talkplugin
>>> 1/1
>>> Installed Packages
>>> virt-viewer.x86_64
>>> 0.5.7-2.fc20
>>> installed
>>> 
>>> greg at dauntless:~$ sudo yum install virt-viewer
>>> Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
>>> Package virt-viewer-0.5.7-2.fc20.x86_64 already installed and latest
>>> version
>>> Nothing to do
>>> 
>>> I don't see RPMs anywhere for 0.6, and compiling it didn't work for me.
>>> (configure: error: At least one of spice or vnc must be used)
>> 
>> Strange. I think it's in 0.5.6.
>> Oh, remote-viewer, did you try that one?
> 
> Yeah, same results.
> 
> Let me try connecting from a different Fedora 20 machine, maybe mine's broken.
> 
>>> 
>>>>> 2. Using a VNC client to connect to the host with the password in the .vv
>>>>> file just immediately disconnects it -- no error message.
>>>> 
>>>> Did you make it in 120s?
>>> 
>>> Sorry, what?
>> 
>> The security ticket is valid for 120s only
> 
> Yes, I beat that.
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Certificates?
>>> 
>>> Did not touch any certs. But, see my reply to #1.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 3. noVNC just gives me an empty popup with a gray background.
>>>> 
>>>> You didn't import the engine's CA, did you?
>>> 
>>> You got me, but it should certainly give some error message, no?
>> 
>> Not when you don't trust the cert authority. Unfortunately. That's why we
>> added the page to such a prominent place:)
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> Not even "Authentication failure" ?

Nope, nothing. For 3.5 we're looking into enabling the debug console so you have something to look at...:)

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>> 
>> Thanks,
>> michal
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>> 
>>>> The Console Downloads page has all the info to get it work, did you check
>>>> it
>>>> out? (linked from main landing page, display options, user portal...so you
>>>> shouldn't moss it;)
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> michal
>>>>> 
>>>>> Greg Sheremeta
>>>>> Red Hat, Inc.
>>>>> Sr. Software Engineer, RHEV
>>>>> Cell: 919-807-1086
>>>>> gshereme at redhat.com
>>>>> 
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