[Users] Can't open ovirt console using Spice or VNC - help!

Karli Sjöberg Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se
Sun Feb 9 19:25:50 UTC 2014


Den 9 feb 2014 20:00 skrev Drew Showers <drew at augurworks.com>:
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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> 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 -
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> spice-xpi (yum install spice-xpi)
> virt-manager (yum install virt-manager)
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> 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.
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> 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"
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> 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.
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> I'm not sure if I'm missing additional packages or what. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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> Thanks,
> Drew
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