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

[Drew Showers]

Ah sorry. The vm guest is CentOS 6.4 or 6.5 depending in the ISO image used. Yes graphics driver package.

I have virt-viewer on my CentOS vm running on my Mac. It works, but the Mac mouse is unusable when installing CentOS on the guest using remote-viewer. 

I have another machine running native CentOS. But remote-viewer won't launch because it can't connect to the graphics server. I'm guessing it's missing some drivers. 

Thanks for the help!



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> On Feb 11, 2014, at 1:27 AM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>