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

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 12:08 -0500, Drew Showers wrote:
> 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?

$ yum provides /usr/bin/remote-viewer
virt-viewer-0.5.6-8.el6.x86_64 : Virtual Machine Viewer
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Other       : Provides-match: /usr/bin/remote-viewer

$ yum provides /usr/bin/virt-viewer
virt-viewer-0.5.6-8.el6.x86_64 : Virtual Machine Viewer
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/virt-viewer

:)

/K

> 
> 
> 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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