[ovirt-users] console spice questions

Mon Sep 22 12:56:40 UTC 2014

Hi,

On So, 2014-09-20 at 11:31 +0000, Bill Dossett wrote:
> Thank you.  IE wasn't telling me about a .vv download...

It may be caused by spice-x presence in the system. If you remove it
from IE, IE should offer you .vv file download. spice-activex doesn't
have an uninstaller so you can remove it from IE using "About
plugins..." --> All plug-ins --> Red Hat SpiceX -- Remove (from top of
my head so YMMV). It should do the job but there will still be some
traces scattered across the registry - try looking for spicex, spice-x,
spice-activex, ACD6D89C-938D-49B4-8E81-DDBD13F4B48A and
ACD6D89C-938D-49B4-8E81-DDBD13F4B48B (the UUIDs are class IDs used by
x86 and x86_64 versions of plug-in respectively).

Regards,

David

> I had reverted to using IE as virt-engine seemed like it was happier with me using IE and warned me that graphic display wasn't optimal with FireFox..  so anyway, I tried FireFox again and it offered to download the .vv file and I opened it and associated it with Remote Viewer and yes it works.  Looks like I am back on track again.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Jaša [mailto:djasa at redhat.com]
> Sent: 19 September 2014 13:29
> To: Bill Dossett
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] console spice questions
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Pá, 2014-09-19 at 10:26 +0000, Bill Dossett wrote:
> > Thanks David, I appreciate the help.  I installed virt-manager on my virt-engine.
> 
> That isn't needed.
> 
> > And I have installed virt-viewer on my workstation...
> 
> This is what I advised.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Once you install virt-viewer in Windows, it should be associated with .vv files. When you click Console then, you should be offered with .vv file download, let it open with virt-viewer (should work
> out-of-the-box) and voilà, you should see your console.
> 
> If you're not offered with .vv file for download, try choosing "Native client" method in Console options (and of course if you have spice console selected in VM options)
> 
> so,
> 
> > I am assuming I connect to virt-engine for this - should the console
> > button in the virt-engine bring up the remote viewer,
> 
> yes, it should,
> 
> >  or do I have to start the remote view separately?
> 
> no,
> 
> > I turned the firewall off to make sure that isn't the problem.
> 
> Firewall is not involved unless you restrict outbound connections as well,
> 
> > 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 "
> 
> again, virt-manager is not the thingy you want, virt-viewer is.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> David
> 
> >  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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