[ovirt-users] virt-viewer disabling rhel6

[cmc]

Thanks for the update Lev.

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Lev Veyde <lveyde at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Cam,
>
> The reason why it works in RHEL 6.7 clients is due to the fact that
> version of virt-viewer that is supplied with it, doesn't support the
> mechanism to check for the minimum required version.
>
> Wasn't aware we can modify the versions we require through
> RemoteViewerSupportedVersions config. Michal - thanks for the hint.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:00 PM, cmc <iucounu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Michal, that is a huge help. We're busy building an image for EL7
>> but it isn't yet fully finished, so we're still on 6.x for now. We're
>> updating to 6.8 and then 6.9 in the meantime. Interesting that it still
>> works for 6.7 though - I can't explain that. I have updated
>> RemoteViewerSupportedVersions and restarted the engine and it works like a
>> charm.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Cam
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Michal Skrivanek <
>> michal.skrivanek at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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> 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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>>>
>>>
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