[Users] test day help -- console

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Feb 12, 2014, at 18:20 , Greg Sheremeta <gshereme at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan at redhat.com>
>> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:16:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] test day help -- console
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12 Feb 2014, at 10:09, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> ----- 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 10:43:18 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's built into current debian, I use it too. Does it support vv files?
>>> Didn't know that. The same package also has 'remote-viewer', which works
>>> for me with:
>>> remote-viewer vnc://host:port
>> 
>> Yep. For some reason only remote-viewer works. No idea why
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 2. Using a VNC client to connect to the host with the password in the .vv
>>>>> file just immediately disconnects it -- no error message.
>>> 
>>> For vv files I use the following script:
>>> 
>>> =========================================================================
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> 
>>> LOG=$HOME/vv1.log
>>> echo ===================== $(date) >> $LOG
>>> echo params "$@" >> $LOG
>>> 
>>> vvfile="$1"
>>> host=$(sed -n 's/^host=\([a-zA-Z0-9-]*\).*/\1/p' "$vvfile")
>>> port=$(sed -n 's/^port=\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p' "$vvfile")
>>> echo "$host" >> $LOG
>>> echo "$port" >> $LOG
>>> sed -n 's/^password=\(.*\)/\1/p' "$vvfile" | vncviewer -autopass
>>> "${host}::${port}" &
>>> 
>>> sleep 2
>>> /bin/rm -f "$vvfile"
>>> =========================================================================
>>> 
>>> Verified now that it works (I seldom use it because the default is spice
>>> which works for me).
>> 
>> Remote-viewer should work the same for VNC. For cclient of choice yes, your
>> script is the one to use
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Did you make it in 120s?
>>> 
>>> That was the main reason for this script :-)
>>> 
>>>> Certificates?
>>> 
>>> Didn't bother with that.
>> 
>> Alon would be happy to hear that I'm sure:-D
>> I agree, in reality noone bothers.
>> 
> 
> It's a pretty invasive thing, IMHO. If I see that I need to install a browser certificate for something, first thing I'm going to do is look for the alternative. :/ It's worse than digging out my 2 factor auth token!!

I agree
alternative is to use the native client or plugin:)
you have 3 choices, unfortunately each needs some action/installation.
But hopefully one out of three should work for everyone

Thanks,
michal

> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 3. noVNC just gives me an empty popup with a gray background.
>>>> 
>>>> You didn't import the engine's CA, did you?
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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;)
>>> 
>>> You refer to 'Console Client Resources', which links to [1]?
>>> I had to do some manual work to get spice-xpi working on Debian as it's not
>>> packaged for it (and iirc neither are some of the dependencies).
>> 
>> Yes. If you have some handy tips for Debian please feel free to update the
>> page
>> 
>>> 
>>> [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Console_Client_Resources
>>> --
>>> Didi
>> 
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