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

[Karli Sjöberg]

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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