[Users] SPICE on OSX

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 10:06 +0200, Itamar Heim wrote:
> 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

Well that´s not a bad idea at all!:) I can do that:

http://www.ovirt.org/SPICE_Remote-Viewer_on_OS_X


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