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

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 12:04 -0500, Drew Showers wrote:
> The guest is MacOS 10.8.5. or CentOS 6.4. 

Now I´m confused. By guest, I meant Virtual Machine guest, not your PC.
And by graphic packages, I was assuming you meant graphics _driver_
packages. Are we on the same track this far?

/K

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> 
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> wrote:
>         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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