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

[Drew Showers]

Hi David,

I thought remote-viewer was included in virt-manager, which I have in my
CentOS client. Looks like I need to add virt-viewer as well?

Thanks!


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:54 AM, David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Ne, 2014-02-09 at 19:00 -0500, Drew Showers wrote:
> > I did not see that and it works, thank you! 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?
>
> remote-viewer from virt-viewer package is the client you want.
>
> David
>
> >
> > 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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