[ovirt-users] console spice questions

[Bill Dossett]

Thanks David, I appreciate the help.  I installed virt-manager on my virt-engine.  And I have installed virt-viewer on my workstation...  I am still not getting a console though. I don't quite understand if I have to do anything further..  I have checked the faq and looked at the screen shots, but I am not much the wiser... is there any more detail I can read on installing and getting this running?  I am assuming I connect to virt-engine for this - should the console button in the virt-engine bring up the remote viewer, or do I have to start the remote view separately?  I turned the firewall off to make sure that isn't the problem.  It appears its trying fire virt-manager up on to a remote x display I guess, but I just get "unable to connect to the graphic server spice://ovirt.pbi.global.pvt:5900 "  Any further advice on getting this running would be greatly appreciated.

Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: David Jaša [mailto:djasa at redhat.com]
Sent: 19 September 2014 09:05
To: Bill Dossett
Cc: users at ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] console spice questions

Hi Bill,

Yes, the document is already dated. Lately, you don't have to go through the hoops needed to make spice-x work. Even if you can get it, it will only work for you in IE < 11. You should instead just install virt-viewer [1] and the consoles should Just Work for you using the Natice Client (.vv file) method.

David

[1] http://virt-manager.org/download/


On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 07:20 +0000, Bill Dossett wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>
> After setting up an ovirt cluster with 4 hosts and getting my
> networking and vlans all connected I’m pretty impressed with ovirt.  I
> am however not too impressed with trying to actually get a console
> into a VM.  I’m not sure why this isn’t included in the ovirt engine
> to begin with as console access to actually configure a VM to make
> templates of seems a pretty basic tenant of virtualisation.
>
>
>
> Anyway, I am following the guide
> http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal  and
> trying to download spice.cab to follow the rather long procedure to
> install, however the link on that page gives a 404 page not found
> error.  Could someone point me to the actual download?  Is this
> document perhaps outdated and I am following the wrong path?
>
>
>
> Thanks
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