[ovirt-users] Spice in 4.0

Thu Jul 28 11:12:41 UTC 2016

> On 28 Jul 2016, at 13:07, Ivan Bulatović <combuster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ‎To be able to use the .vv file, virt-viewer 2.0-8 is required and it can't be found in CentOS 7 repos. CentOS 6 repos contain 2.0-14 version however. Any info about when will the required version land in the CentOS 7 repositories?

It is going to be fixed in the final 4.0.2 build by a proper fix of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285883
You can change it for the timebeing in engine-config’s RemoteViewerSupportedVersions option

Thanks,
michal

> 
> TIA,
> 
> Ivan
>   Original Message  
> From: Michal Skrivanek
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 11:53
> To: Alexander Wels; Melissa Mesler
> Cc: Users at ovirt.org List
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Spice in 4.0
> 
> 
>> On 21 Jul 2016, at 21:43, Alexander Wels <awels at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 02:38:41 PM Melissa Mesler wrote:
>>> That worked! Thank you!!!
>>> 
>> 
>> Okay, great now if you want to set that as the default, so you don't have to 
>> do that manually each time do the following:
>> 
>> ssh into the engine box as root.
>> engine-config -s ClientModeSpiceDefault=Plugin
>> 
>> That should default it to be plugin for all the VMs.
> 
> Thank you Alex for jumping in
> Additional note - the 4.0 distribution of spice components does not contain the XPI/ActiveX anymore, so in case you want to use the deprecated way you need to make sure you install the latest 3.6 version of ActiveX/XPI from 3.6 channels/repos
> 
> Melissa, may I ask what is the thin client you use? Does the vendor have a plan for future? Another non-intrusive option is to use the web-based console clients….which are of varying quality though, so not a feasible replacement in many cases.
> 
> Thanks,
> michal
> 
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 02:14 PM, Alexander Wels wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 01:58:05 PM Melissa Mesler wrote:
>>>>> Yes, this is a workaround for us after upgrading to 4.0. I know it's
>>>>> going away in 4.1 but this buys us some time.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So the first option didn't work b/c like yous aid, it wasn't there. So
>>>>> we did the second step and it still didn't seem to work. We even tried
>>>>> restarting ovirt but that didn't help either. Any other ideas?
>>>> 
>>>> Looking at the code it also set the default mode to 'native' instead of
>>>> plugin. After you set the flag to true and restarted the engine, do you
>>>> see the
>>>> 'plugin' option when you right click on a running VM in webadmin and
>>>> select
>>>> console options? It should be under Console Invocation
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 01:39 PM, Alexander Wels wrote:
>>>>>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 01:19:35 PM Melissa Mesler wrote:
>>>>>>> Yes we are trying to get spice working on a thin client where
>>>>>>> we can't
>>>>>>> use virt-viewer. I just don't know the steps in the bugzilla to
>>>>>>> accomplish it as it's not completely clear.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Okay gotcha,
>>>>>> Note in 4.1 this ability will be completely removed, the bugzilla is
>>>>>> for cases where people need it in some kind of production environment.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Assuming you can ssh into the machine that is running the engine
>>>>>> (either HE or standard engine) as root:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> engine-config -s EnableDeprecatedClientModeSpicePlugin=true
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If that doesn't work because the option was not added to engine-config
>>>>>> (couldn't tell from reading the code). Try this:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> sudo su postgres
>>>>>> --this will log you in as the postgres user
>>>>>> psql -d engine
>>>>>> --this will start psql connecing to the engine database. The
>>>>>> default will be
>>>>>> --engine if you didn't specify something else during engine-
>>>>>> setup. psql -l
>>>>>> --will list all the databases.
>>>>>> update vdc_options set option_value=true where
>>>>>> option_name='EnableDeprecatedClientModeSpicePlugin';
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 01:14 PM, Alexander Wels wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 01:08:49 PM Melissa Mesler wrote:
>>>>>>>>> So I am trying to get spice working in ovirt 4.0. I found the
>>>>>>>>> following
>>>>>>>>> solution:
>>>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316560
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> That bugzilla relates to the legacy spice.xpi FF plugin, and
>>>>>>>> possibly
>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>> activex plugin for IE. The current way is the following:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 1. Get virt-viewer for your platform.
>>>>>>>> 2. Associated virt-viewer with .vv files in your browser.
>>>>>>>> 3. Click the button, which will download the .vv file with the
>>>>>>>> appropriate
>>>>>>>> ticket.
>>>>>>>> 4. The browser will launch virt-viewer with the .vv file as a
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> parameter
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> and it
>>>>>>>> should just all work.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Where do you set
>>>>>>>>> vdc_options.EnableDeprecatedClientModeSpicePlugin to
>>>>>>>>> 'true'?? I see it says ENGINE_DB but what steps do I follow to
>>>>>>>>> do this?
>>>>>>>>> Can someone help me?
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