[Users] Blank VM Install Console

David Li david_li at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jan 17 15:31:15 UTC 2014


Michal,

What's the most common tool people use to access oVirt VM consoles? Spice? VNC? 


----- Original Message -----
> From: Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>
> To: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: Meital Avital <mavital at redhat.com>; Einav Cohen <ecohen at redhat.com>; Omer Frenkel <ofrenkel at redhat.com>; "users at ovirt.org List" <users at ovirt.org>; "dron at redhat.com Ron" <dron at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 1:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console
> 
> 
> On Jan 17, 2014, at 09:59 , Dafna Ron <dron at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>>  well, I have to admit that it has been a while since I tried logging in to 
> a vm console from a Windows OS :)
>>  Adding some people to this which I think can help more than me...
>> 
>> 
>>  On 01/17/2014 12:58 AM, David Li wrote:
>>>  Well, it didn't even have any traces to tell me if it's 
> installed. I am supposed to see these according to the instruction but none of 
> them showed up.
>>> 
>>>      * IE will prompt you with "This website wants to install the 
> following add-on SpiceX.cab... proceed by clicking the arrow on the install 
> button and choose "Install for All Users of this computer".
>>>      * Depending on the version of IE a UAC dialog may pop up asking you 
> if you want to allow "SpiceX.cab" If it does not Click on the install 
> spice button again and it will.
>>>      * In the UAC dialog click on the yes button.
>>>      * The install will now proceed in the background.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  I am using W7 64bit with IE11. My engine is running on a RHEL6 machine.
> 
> IE11 doesn't really work as of now.
> Try some more reasonable browser, IE10 would be also fine.
> 
> activex setup requires some manual work as mentione at 
> How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal wiki
> native invocation (that file to download you got) is easier, just associate with 
> recent remote viewer and it should open 
> it works on Windows, Linux and OSX (needs https://github.com/brianwcook/launchvv 
> in addition)
> 
> check out http://www.ovirt.org/Console_Client_Resources
> 
> Thanks,
> mcihal
> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>>  From: Dafna Ron <dron at redhat.com>
>>>>  To: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
>>>>  Cc: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan at diwanconsulting.com>; 
> "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
>>>>  Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 4:16 PM
>>>>  Subject: Re: [Users] Blank VM Install Console
>>>> 
>>>>  1. did you restart you're firefox after install?
>>>>  2. what OS are you using?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>  On 01/16/2014 11:40 PM, David Li wrote:
>>>>>   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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>>>>  -- 
>>>>  Dafna Ron
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
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