[ovirt-users] Spice on Ovirt 3.4.4 Windows 2012 Guests

[Gary Lloyd]

Thanks David that appears to work.

I did a few more tests and it seems that without your fix Ovirt tries to
connect via rpd to machines windows 2012 machines that had the spice
console set prior to the 3.4.4 update.

One other thing I have noticed on our test install is that a powered off
machine could not be moved between different clusters in the same data
centre. The list doesn't expand to include the other clusters on the vm
properties for some reason.

This doesn't affect us at the moment though.

*Gary Lloyd*
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IT Services
Keele University
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On 14 October 2014 12:00, David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> I can't tell you what happens on upgrade but in order to be able to
> choose Spice consoles for win8/win2012 guests, drop this file
> to /etc/ovirt-engine/osinfo.conf.d:
>
>
> cat >
> /etc/ovirt-engine/osinfo.conf.d/99-spice_for_win8_and_win2012.properties <<
> EOF
> os.windows_8.devices.display.protocols.value = qxl/qxl,vnc/cirrus
> os.windows_8x64.devices.display.protocols.value = qxl/qxl,vnc/cirrus
> os.windows_2012x64.devices.display.protocols.value = qxl/qxl,vnc/cirrus
> EOF
>
> and restart the engine.
>
> You won't be able to use qxl driver (and by extension multi-monitor and
> continuous resolution change) but the features provided by spice-vdagent
> should continue to work for you.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> On Út, 2014-10-14 at 11:07 +0100, Gary Lloyd wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > We are currently running Ovirt 3.3.5 in production, currently our
> > Windows Guests are using spice for the console. I have noticed that in
> > our test environment running 3.4.4 that this option cannot be selected
> > for Windows 2012 guests.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know what will happen to the console on VMs running
> > windows 2012 if we upgrade to 3.4.4 on our production environment ?
> >
> >
> > Will it simply not work resulting in us having to power down the
> > affected VMs or will the existing VMs carry on working with the spice
> > console setting ?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Gary Lloyd
> > ----------------------------------
> > IT Services
> > Keele University
> > -----------------------------------
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