[Users] SPICE on OSX

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 16:25 +0100, cfergeau at redhat.com wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 02:49:42PM +0000, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 15:39 +0100, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> > > On 01/17/2014 03:14 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> > > > Hi Juan!
> > > > 
> > > > I´ve read a post you made about packaging Remote-Viewer for OS X. I
> > > > tested extracting and running this[1] package on a 10.7.5 machine,
> > > > logging in to our webadmin portal with Firefox, clicking for console on
> > > > a VM, remote-viewer starts up but doesn´t seems to load the console.vv
> > > > file (the VM´s console never shows up). Is it something I´m missing?
> > > > 
> > > > oVirt 3.3.1-2.el6
> > > > 
> > > > [1]
> > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~teuf/spice-gtk-osx/dmg/0.5.7/RemoteViewer-0.5.7-1.dmg
> > > > 
> > So Christophe, is there anything more needed to make Remote-Viewer show
> > my VM´s console in OS X? I mean, the application works, it starts up
> > just fine, it just doesn´t show my VM´s console window...
> > 
> 
> 
> Yes this is a known issue, if you start remote-viewer foo.vv from a
> terminal, it should connect. When started from a browser, the filename is
> not passed in the same way as if the program was started from the command
> line, and this is very specific to OSX, so this bit is not implemented.
> remote-viewer patches to add support for this are very welcome ;)
> 
> Christophe

Ah, I see. Yes, running:

$ /Applications/RemoteViewer.app/Contents/MacOS/RemoteViewer
Downloads/console.vv

Works! I haz SPICE on OSX now:) Thanks a bunch man!



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