[ovirt-users] virt-viewer disabling rhel6

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 1 Jun 2017, at 15:10, Lev Veyde <lveyde at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Cam,
> 
> Unfotunately RHEL 6 clients are no longer supported in the oVirt 4.1 due to the new functions that were added which require a more recent version of the virt-viewer, thus the issue.
> 
> You should use a more recent version e.g. to use RHEL 7 as the client to resolve the issue.

That said, using engine-config you can change the version check and allow to launch it . You’ll miss some features but it may not really be that important if all you need is to see the screen and cannot update clients to EL7
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285883

Thanks,
michal
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 4:50 PM, cmc <iucounu at gmail.com <mailto:iucounu at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> virt-viewer no longer appears to work when trying to launch a console
> with EL 6.8 and oVirt 4.1. The error is:
> 
> "At least Remote Viewer version 99.0-1 is required to setup this connection"
> 
> When I ran remote-viewer in debug mode, it seems that it is
> deliberately disabling rhel6 by setting the version to a non-existent
> version:
> 
> (remote-viewer:23829): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Minimum version '2.0-160'
> for OS id 'rhev-win64'
> (remote-viewer:23829): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Minimum version '2.0-160'
> for OS id 'rhev-win32'
> (remote-viewer:23829): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Minimum version '2.0-6'
> for OS id 'rhel7'
> (remote-viewer:23829): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Minimum version '99.0-1'
> for OS id 'rhel6'
> 
> rhel 6.7 (and presumably brfore) works fine. I contacted the
> maintainers of virt-viewer and they said that this is an ovirt issue.
> Is this somehow disabled in 4.1? Can someone tell me why this is the
> case?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any insights,
> 
> Cam
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