[Users] Blank VM Install Console

[David Li]

This isn't working for me at this time. I have gone to the end of the instructions and clicked on "Install Spice" button in IE but nothing happened. 

Maybe someone with more knowledge should come out and make clarifications. 


----- Original Message -----
> From: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan at diwanconsulting.com>
> To: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console
> 
> yuck
> 
> i dont know why they do not just have this already done in an rpm
> 
> yes it probably works , i have not tested it ,  but virt-viewer is
> deprecated in favor of the newer Remote-Viewer
> 
> by the way
> 
> worst comes to worst  you can always connect to the ovirt vm node
> server via virt-manager gui in linux .. or using macports virt-manager
> in OSX
> 
> and as long as you have a username and password set up in libvirt
> password db
> /etc/libvirt/passwd.db
> 
> use saslpasswd2 -a libvirt $USER  on your ovirt vm host node 
> to add your user account so you dont mess with ovirt's
> 
> if you have  winaxe or some other Xwindows on your windows machine you
> could probably just ssh with putty.exe to your ovirt node server and run
> virt-manager from there while displaying back to your windows desktop
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
> Reply-to: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan at diwanconsulting.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org <users at ovirt.org>
> Subject: Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:35:02 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Is this page still applicable to ovirt 3.3.2?
> 
> http://wiki.ovirt.org/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal#Add_a_deployment_method_Server_Side
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan at diwanconsulting.com>
>>  To: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
>>  Cc: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
>>  Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:28 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console
>> 
>>  install them wherever your firefox browser is installed...
>>  whichever machine you are using to browse to the portal from
>> 
>>  unfortunately i believe ovirts' spice viewing only works on linux
>>  desktops running firefox  currently
>> 
>>  also the ovirt  vnc implementation assumes you have remote-viewer  which
>>  can open that .vv file that pops up.. again remote-viewer would only be
>>  available on linux desktops.. 
>> 
>>  there IS a MAC OS port for remote-viewer , but i've never gotten it to
>>  work without a lot of manual URL input
>> 
>> 
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
>>  Reply-to: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
>>  To: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan at diwanconsulting.com>
>>  Cc: users at ovirt.org <users at ovirt.org>
>>  Subject: Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console
>>  Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:39:20 -0800 (PST)
>> 
>> 
>>  Do I need these to be installed on the engine or on the machine where the 
>>  webadmin portal browser is being run? 
>> 
>>  Are there any ovirt links describing these?
>> 
>>  david
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>   From: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan at diwanconsulting.com>
>>>   To: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
>>>   Cc: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
>>>   Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:35 AM
>>>   Subject: Re: [Users] Black VM Install Console
>>> 
>>>   you ve probabaly not install teh spice xpi in your firefox on linux 
> when
>>>   you opened the console , or maybe the remote-viewer application is
>>>   missing
>>> 
>>>   use yum to install these 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   -----Original Message-----R
>>>   eply-to: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
>>> 
>>>   Subject: [Users] Black VM Install Console
>>>   Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:08:13 -0800 (PST)
>>> 
>>>   Hi,
>>> 
>>>   My first time to install a VM on ovirt has encountered a problem. I 
> tried 
>>  to 
>>>   open up a console to continue the install process. But all I got is a 
> blank 
>> 
>>>   window and a request to save a file which I did. The window remained 
> blank 
>>  and I 
>>>   couldn't see any activities. I went to the node itself and tried 
> to see 
>>  if I 
>>>   could use virsh tool to understand what's going on. But I was 
> asked for 
>>  a 
>>>   username and password to perform any actions. 
>>> 
>>>   Any idea what I should do at this time?
>>> 
>>>   David
>>> 
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>> 
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