[ovirt-users] console spice questions

[Alexander Wels]

On Friday, September 19, 2014 10:26:55 AM Bill Dossett wrote:
> 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.
 
Odds are your machine you are trying to connect with does not have the fully 
qualified domain name of the host it is trying to connect to. If you don't have 
DNS setup for it you should be able to add it to your hosts file (we recommend 
DNS though). If that is not the problem you can simply download the .vv and 
manually start the viewer with a debug flag, and it will tell you in detail 
what the problem is.

remote-viewer xxx.vv --debug

Note there is a time limit on how long the ticket is active, if I recall 
correctly its 120 seconds, so be fast when you do it.


> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill Dossett
> >
> >
> >
> > Virtualisation Architect
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Pitney Bowes – Tech Central
> >
> >
> >
> > 6 Hercules Way, 600 Leavesden Park
> >
> >
> >
> > Watford, WD25 7GS
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Phone(+44) (0)1923 279353 | VOIP: 54739353
> >
> >
> >
> > Mobile(+44) (0)7775 908612
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > bill.dossett at pb.com
> >
> >
> >
> > www.pb.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In Engineering?Raise a ticket via Remedy Anywhere [HERE]takes less
> > than a minute
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ManageIQ User Guide available [HERE]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Check out the ManageIQ Blog for recent enhancements and information
> > [HERE]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Users mailing list
> > Users at ovirt.org
> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users at ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users