[ovirt-users] [moVirt] Failed to open console client.

[John Florian]

Hi Tomas,

Thanks for the help.  Installing the from github as you suggested looks
to get me closer.  I first uninstalled both aSPICE and bVNC that I'd
installed from the play store.  It now appears that moVirt is starting
aSPICE at least, but now I'm confronted with "Unable to connect or
authenticate, please check server address, password and cert authority
and subject."  Is this because I have moVirt using https for the
connection?  (I see the moVirt README mentions: *Note* moVirt/aSPICE
does not support SPICE secured connections at the moment!)  If that's
the case, I guess I'll live w/o consoles on my phone for now.  I'd
rather not send my ovirt admin password in plain-text since that'd be
like providing physical access to every one of my critical VMs -- but
maybe I'm just interpreting that note wrongly.

On 03/27/2015 02:16 AM, Tomas Jelinek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> well, consoles are a bit tricky in moVirt. 
>
> 1: There is a nice chance the stock aSPICE does not work yet and you need a newer version with some patches. You can get it from here:
> https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients/releases/download/v3.7.7/freeaSPICE-3.7.7-final.apk
> (maybe it is in play store already but not sure... just try that one please)
>
> 2: If this is not the issue there is a nice chance that your hosts are on a different network than your moVirt thus aSPICE /bVNC can not connect.
> You could verify this by installing some
> app which is able to ping from phone and try to ping your host from it. If it will not ping them and you don't want to expose the hosts directly, than the consoles
> are not going to work, because:
> 1: you could use SPICE PROXY - unfortunately aSPICE does not support it
> 2: you could use websocket proxy and connect from web clients (SPICE HTML5 or noVNC) - but moVirt does not integrate them since they need a connection to websocket proxy 
>    and in order to make a connection to websocket proxy you need a ticket signed by the private certificate of the engine. And the functionality of providing this
>    is not exposed to REST API (only GWT-RPC) so we can not consume it. There is some bug around it and also some work being done around it so I think it will make into 3.6.
>    But 3.6 is far far away...
>
> Hope the problem is just old aSPICE :)
> Tomas
>    
> ----- John Florian <jflorian at doubledog.org> wrote:
>> I just started playing with moVirt after I first heard about it here on
>> this list.  Wow, that's so much easier to use on my Galaxy S5 than the
>> regular web interface.  :-)
>>
>> Of course, now I want the whole bag of chips but can't seem to get the
>> console working.  When I press the console button I see "Failed to open
>> console client.  Check if aSPICE/bVNC is installed.".  I had already
>> installed aSPICE from the Play Store but when that didn't work installed
>> bVNC in addition; still no luck.
>>
>> My engine.log shows this when I try:
>>
>> 2015-03-26 19:52:14,750 INFO 
>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.SetVmTicketCommand] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-10)
>> [7f6f1f09] Running command: SetVmTicketCommand internal: false. Entities
>> affected :  ID: 6ca4e6ae-a201-432b-b22a-2c6517fbd92c Type: VMAction
>> group CONNECT_TO_VM with role type USER
>> 2015-03-26 19:52:14,752 INFO 
>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.SetVmTicketVDSCommand]
>> (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-10) [7f6f1f09] START,
>> SetVmTicketVDSCommand(HostName = hosted_engine_1, HostId =
>> e90e2ca0-e3b9-46d5-8fde-09fc1c5eed20,
>> vmId=6ca4e6ae-a201-432b-b22a-2c6517fbd92c, ticket=pd2lTiu7w7Ra,
>> validTime=7200,m userName=admin,
>> userId=fdfc627c-d875-11e0-90f0-83df133b58cc), log id: 6257f73
>> 2015-03-26 19:52:14,766 INFO 
>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.SetVmTicketVDSCommand]
>> (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-10) [7f6f1f09] FINISH, SetVmTicketVDSCommand, log
>> id: 6257f73
>> 2015-03-26 19:52:14,846 INFO 
>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector]
>> (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-10) [7f6f1f09] Correlation ID: 7f6f1f09, Call
>> Stack: null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: user admin at internal initiated
>> console session for VM krypto_f21
>>
>> What am doing wrong?
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