[Users] SPICE on OSX

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/20/2014 08:54 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> 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!
>
>
>

Karli - since this seems to be a common question (saw it on irc several 
times this week) - can you please wikify vnc and spice status on OSX?

thanks,
    Itamar