[Users] Fwd: Trying to connect via SPICE or VNC to VM using a Macbook...

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/27/2014 05:33 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Adam Stracener
> <neckbeardprince at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Got oVirt up and running like a champ and created my first VM with it but
>> the issue I'm having now is getting to console into that VM to setup SSH and
>> a few basics.

glad to hear.
why not configure ssh via cloud-init as part of the boot (pass your 
public ssh key during first run-vm so cloud-init will configure it in 
the vm and you can just ssh to it)?

>> I've installed virt-manager (RemoteViewer) when i put in spice://<ip> I get
>> Unable to connect to the graphic server.
>>
>> I would love to use the .vv files that download when I click CONSOLE but i
>> have yet to find a way to wrap .vv into Remote Viewer and pass that data to
>> it. Any thoughts? This is the only issue I am having so far.
>
> Not tried myself, but see here
> http://www.ovirt.org/SPICE_Remote-Viewer_on_OS_X
>
> and the whole thread here in case from February this year:
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-February/021087.html

maybe reference the thread from the wiki for posterity?