When I am wrong I admit it. Looks like I spent a lot of time looking for a workaround for a problem that has been fixed in the 3.1 tree.
On 06/06/2012 05:04 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: >[1] >authorGilad Chaplik <[email protected]> >"VNC connection details - in case press console to vnc, the app will open a popup indicates the VNC >connection details." > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine.git;a=commit;h=abd057da7a737a156a471e0b938741a4e54622f5 > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine.git;a=commit;h=c7fc82c51b82f92481188683e2d63f80ba2957d3 > I missed that one going it. That works pretty well overall and works on all platforms. One less issue to iron out. Thanks Robert On 06/06/2012 06:14 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote: > On 06/06/2012 03:13 PM, David Jaša wrote: >> Hi Robert, >> >> This is a problem: >> >> 1 a) the active x plugin for windows/ie is not yet released. > Yep I know. I tired to work around the issue by creating a fedora VM > for people to VNC to however spicec aborts with the following error. > > 1339005616 INFO [11312:11312] Application::main: starting 0.8.3 > 1339005616 ERROR [11312:11312] main: unhandled exception: Unsupported > visual for screen > > That suggest to me that spicec wants a real frame buffer not a virtual > one. I am really open to suggestions for windows users to be able to > console to a VM? That is why I am looking for a script something that > can be run external of ovirt that can set a password and give them a URL > that can be used by VNC or virt-viewer? >> 1 b) the XPI plugin is linux-only (and effectively firefox-only but I >> think that patches for Chrome/Webkit compatibility will be welcome) > Works fine under Fedora inside a virtualbox VM. So I am guessing it > works fine in a bare metal install. >> 2) for Ubuntu, you'd need at least first of these two geting merged in >> Debian and then wait half year for Ubuntu to leech it: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667565 >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668284 >> (the second is technically not necessary but given that spicec is being >> discontinued and all the development takes there...) >> >> Alternatively, you could get spice-xpi for ubuntu from PPAs. > Please send me a link to a working PPA for ubuntu? I have tried > https://launchpad.net/~jasonbrooks/+archive/ppa under both 11.10 and > 12.04 under both 32bit and 64bit Versions and both just error out. Sent > the Aurthur an email reporting the issue and never heard back. >> David >> >> >> Robert Middleswarth píše v St 06. 06. 2012 v 14:50 -0400: >>> I like spice under Fedora but most of my users use windows. A few use >>> Kubuntu none user Fedora at this time. I like ovirt and have been >>> testing it for some time. 3.1 looks really good and all my tests have >>> been working well if I can fix the console issues we would be bring >>> ovirt into production but until we can find a way for the admin team to >>> be able to access console oVirt is a no go. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Robert >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Trust me I have read up on the issue unless everyone in my group wants > to keep a fedora VM to access the console on there system there doesn't > seem to be a way for an admin to console to a VM currently. This will > change at some point but until there is a workaround available for > windows users or users of other distro's then Red Hat based ones oVirt > isn't really usable. > > That is why I am asking if anyone has created a script I can use. > Something that will allow me to run select a VM and have it assign > assign a password and display a URL that can be copied / pasted into > either virt-viewer or vnc. I have seen piece of it in the various > lists. Suggesting that something could be done using the rest, sdk, or > cli api's. > > I have seen some info on getting VNC to work but nothing organized and I > would lose all spice support if I did but getting VNC to work is a > possibility's. Although my preference would be something still using > spice so spice-xpi would continue to work and over time the need for the > hack would reduce and more OS's gain support. > > So that brings me back to my original question. Does anyone have a > scripts or at least a string of commands I can tie together to spit out > a URL I can use to connect using Virt-Viewer preferred or something for VNC. > > Thanks > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
