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

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 07:01 -0500, Drew Showers wrote:
> Ah sorry. The vm guest is CentOS 6.4 or 6.5 depending in the ISO image used. Yes graphics driver package.

NP, just so we´re on the same page here:)

> 
> 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. 

Does the mouse work when running remote(virt)-viewer directly from your
Mac to the same CentOS guest using the mentioned instructions[1]?

[1]: http://www.ovirt.org/SPICE_Remote-Viewer_on_OS_X

> 
> 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. 

No drivers are needed in the machine you´re viewing from. Only
guest-side drivers are needed, and in Linux, they´re already there:)

What you are experiencing is some kind of network-related issue. You
need to make sure that the other "native" CentOS-machine can connect
properly to the Host running the Guest via a resolvable address, because
it will want to establish an encrypted session with the Host´s fqdn.

/K

> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > 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
> > 



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