[ovirt-users] How to See Ovirt Console From a Remote Windows Host

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Oct 13, 2014, at 11:11 , Daniel Abrich <daniel at abrich.eu> wrote:

> Jon Forrest <nobozo at ...> writes:
> 
>> 
>> I know that this is simple for some of you, but I also
>> know from Googling around that lots of people have had
>> trouble seeing their ovirt console from a remote Windows
>> host. Below I describe what finally worked for me. I hope
>> this helps somebody avoid wasting as much time as I did
>> today.
>> 
>> I'm a fairly experienced VMWare user who's learning ovirt.
>> I just installed an all-in-one ovirt server and copied a
>> CentOS 6.5 iso into it. I then tried to boot a new VM
>> but soon learned that console access is different in ovirt
>> than on VMWare.
>> 
>> I then spent over an hour trying the various documented
>> ways to view a remote console using Spice on my Windows 7
>> desktop. I even tried using a Linux VM to see if the Firefox
>> plugin for Spice would work. Nothing.
>> 
>> What finally worked was installing the virt-viewer Windows
>> client (http://virt-manager.org/download/). Then, I opened
>> the ovirt Administration Portal in Firefox running on my
>> Windows 7 desktop. I created a new VM and configured it
>> the way I wanted. Then, from the "Virtual Machines" tab, I started
>> the new VM. Pretty soon the little console icon turned green so
>> I clicked on it. I got the prompt from Firefox asking me what
>> app I wanted to associate with the ".vv" URL that opened when
>> I clicked on the console icon. I browsed around and selected
>> 
>> \Program Files\VirtViewer\bin\remote-viewer.exe
>> 
>> which is from the virt-viewer client package I installed above.
>> I told Firefox to always use this app for this kind of file.
>> 
>> This works great! I was able to boot the CentOS system and
>> install it with no problems.
>> 
>> Good luck!
>> Jon Forrest
>> 
> 
> Hi, I have one problem with that. I believe that the problem is rather in
> oVirt, not the viewer. I have oVirt installed at work and I also have
> connection to the work environment using IPv6 tunnelling (Windows WAN). In
> the oVirt all hosts are added using FQDN. The problem is that all hosts in
> the LAN (inside the company) are resolved via IPv4 and the same FQDN is
> resolved via IPv6 when I'm connected via WAN. In the console.vv file I can
> see the IPv4 address unfortunately and the connection to the console via WAN
> is not working. If I change the file putting FQDN to the "host=" line
> everything is working fine.
> 
> How to change the oVirt? I'd prefer that the line "host=" contains the FQDN
> (or whatever is being put in the engine database) not the IP address?

there's a Display address override per host where you can map each host's console address to something else; some other IP or FQDN
you just need to set it for all hosts

Thanks,
michal

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel
> 
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