[ovirt-users] remote-viewer from admin vs user portal

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have the impression that there is a different behavior between admin and
> user portal when opening a VM console with remote-viewer.
> My client is an updated CentOS 7 machine and I'm using firefox on it to
> connect to oVirt 4.0.4 portals.
> If I connect to a VM (that is a Fedora 24 os) from web admin it runs
> remote-viewer.
> I switch to full screen mode and leave it some hours.
> When I come back I see a black screen and I'm not able to re-get the
> session.
> I can click on top center to pop up the menu and exit the remote-viewer
> full screen but also in window mode I'm not able to get again the desktop
> environment inside the VM (I configured Mate desktop in fedora 24 VM): it
> remains black window. The VM itsel is ok: I can close the remote-viewer
> window and open again the console and I get the desktop environment.
>
> Instead from User Portal on the same client I can open the console (again
> remote-viewer), leave the session in full screen mode and come back many
> hours later and as soon as I click or press a key I get the session ok
> (sometimes actually I get the screen saver locked of the client desktop
> environment itself, but as soon as I unlock it I can connec thent to the VM
> desktop).
>
> Any special reason for this?
>
> In both cases the command seems the same:
>
> admin portal:
>  $ ps -ef|grep remote-viewer
> g.cecchi 10356  9462  0 18:59 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto
> remote-viewer
> g.cecchi 16814 20129  0 01:30 ?        00:00:54 /usr/bin/remote-viewer
> /tmp/mozilla_g.cecchi0/console.vv
>
> user portal (extended mode)
> $ ps -ef|grep remote-viewer
> g.cecchi 11544 20129  0 19:02 ?        00:01:18 /usr/bin/remote-viewer
> /tmp/mozilla_g.cecchi0/console.vv
> g.cecchi 23534  9462  0 22:54 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto
> remote-viewer
>
> Not a big problem, but quite strange.
>

Ciao Gianluca,
Have you compared also the content of the two console.vv files?


>
> Gianluca
>
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