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

Karli Sjöberg Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se
Wed Feb 12 07:06:20 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 21:02 -0500, Drew Showers wrote:
> You're a genius! 

I have had a part in writing the wiki page about remote viewer for Mac,
but that´s all. The developers are the real geniuses here:)

> It was a DNS problem. I added the clients FQHN and IP to the local DNS
> and it worked like a charm. Thank you! 

... And a big thank you to the developers:)

> 
> 
> The mac version is actually usable as well. 

@Christophe

It works;)

/K

> 
> 
> Thanks for all your help! 
> Drew
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> wrote:
>         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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>         
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> 
> 



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