[Spice-devel] mouse problem with muiltiple monitors (was [Users] HowTo: Spice ActiveX Plugin/Virt Viewer Console on oVirt 3.1)

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Thu Sep 13 02:26:43 PDT 2012


On 09/13/2012 10:24 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
>
> 13 sep 2012 kl. 01.21 skrev Dead Horse:
>
>> Thank you! glad to be able to help ;)
>>
>> As Itamar mentioned if you are running the spice client inside a VM
>> (dunno if this is case) you will need the guest paravirtual driver
>> and/or services for mouse handling. I have observed exactly this
>> behavior before when running the spice client in a VM when the guest
>> tools/drivers for mouse handling are not present (In my case most of
>> the time VirtualBox).
>
> Very amusing "bug":) But cripples SPICE´s usage.
>
> I have tested this from 5 different physical machines running Win7/IE,
> and this behavior shows itself only on machines with more than one
> monitor, or a laptop with another monitor attached .e.g. These guest
> tools you both mention, would these be
> "http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/spice-guest-tools-0.1.exe"?
> And can you install them in a physical machine as well?

cc-ing spice-devel to see if they have insights on your issue

>
> /Karli
>
>>
>> - DHC
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
>> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 09/12/2012 05:21 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
>>
>>         This is awesome work, thank you so much for this! For our
>>         users and
>>         administrators, having a button you just click to get a
>>         console is sooo
>>         much easier than having to copy-paste a bunch of cryptic
>>         addresses and
>>         passwords, and having to use the infamous, dangerous hacker
>>         tool VNC:)
>>
>>         I followed the wiki instructions and a vital piece missing is
>>         to restart
>>         ovirt-engine before trying to install the spice-client from
>>         the install
>>         portal. I went back and read through the email you first
>>         posted and the
>>         restart was mentioned there so I did and then it worked!
>>         Wohoo! So you
>>         might want to add that point to the wiki page as well, to
>>         avoid future
>>         confusion.
>>
>>         But...when I have virt-viewer(-0.5.3) installed, log in to
>>         webadmin and
>>         click for console on a guest, the console shows up. But when I
>>         try to go
>>         into the console window with the mouse cursor, the cursor
>>         jumps off to
>>         one of the edges of my *monitor*, and not into the console
>>         window- as
>>
>>         you would expect. Maybe virt-viewer mistakenly "thinks" that
>>         the edges
>>         of it´s window really are the edges of the whole monitor? Am I
>>         holding
>>         it wrong?
>>
>>
>>     do you have spice guest side drivers for local mouse handling?
>>
>>
>>         /Karli
>>
>>         6 sep 2012 kl. 22.36 skrev Dead Horse:
>>
>>             Wiki page added. Feel free to change/edit/contribute or
>>             provide feedback.
>>             Link:
>>             http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/__How_to_Connect_to_SPICE___Console_With_Portal
>>             <http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_With_Portal>
>>
>>             - DHC
>>
>>             On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Robert Middleswarth
>>             <robert at middleswarth.net <mailto:robert at middleswarth.net>
>>             <mailto:robert at middleswarth.__net
>>             <mailto:robert at middleswarth.net>>> wrote:
>>
>>                 You should be able to create an ID.  Once you create
>>             it several
>>                 people can update your account I am one of them.
>>
>>                 Thanks
>>                 Robert
>>
>>
>>                 On 08/30/2012 11:17 PM, Dead Horse wrote:
>>
>>                     I would be happy to wiki'fy it ;)
>>                     I have requested a wiki account so I will just
>>                 need someone to
>>                     grant the proper create/edit page access or create
>>                 a stub page
>>                     and allow edit access to it.
>>                     - DHC
>>
>>                     On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Douglas Landgraf
>>                     <dougsland at redhat.com
>>                 <mailto:dougsland at redhat.com>
>>                 <mailto:dougsland at redhat.com
>>                 <mailto:dougsland at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>                         On 08/30/2012 02:22 AM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>>
>>                             Thanks!
>>                             Can you wiki'fy it (@ wiki.ovirt.org
>>                     <http://wiki.ovirt.org/> <http://wiki.ovirt.org/>) ?
>>                             Y.
>>
>>                         +1
>>
>>                         Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>                     ------------------------------__------------------------------__------------
>>
>>
>>
>>                                 I have seen this question asked many
>>                     times on this list
>>                                 and the spice-devel list. Now having
>>                     figured out how to
>>                                 make it work I will provide the answer
>>                     to the rest of
>>                                 the community.
>>
>>                                 *NOTE* this only applies to
>>                     Windows/Internet Explorer
>>                                 users. There exists no other option
>>                     other than the html5
>>                                 spice console (still beta/in
>>                     development) for windows
>>                                 users ATM. This will also only work
>>                     with Internet Explorer.
>>
>>                                 Basic Steps:
>>                                 - Install an oVirt server.
>>                                 - Add at least one node
>>                                 - Setup storage/iso/export domains
>>
>>                                 Advanced steps
>>                                 - Start by downloading:
>>                     http://elmarco.fedorapeople.__org/spice.cab
>>                     <http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/spice.cab>
>>                                 - Create a directory for it oVirt
>>                     looks by default in
>>                                 /usr/share/spice
>>                                 - Rename spice.cab to SpiceX.cab and
>>                     copy it into
>>                                 /usr/share/spice
>>                                 - Now edit
>>
>>                     /usr/share/ovirt-engine/__engine.ear/root.war/WEB-INF
>>                     and
>>                                 add the following:
>>
>>                                  <!-- SpiceX.cab -->
>>                                   <servlet>
>>
>>                     <servlet-name>SpiceX.cab</__servlet-name>
>>
>>
>>                     <servlet-class>org.ovirt.__engine.core.FileServlet</__servlet-class>
>>                                     <init-param>
>>                                       <param-name>type</param-name>
>>
>>                     <param-value>application/__octet-stream</param-value>
>>                                     </init-param>
>>                                     <init-param>
>>                                       <param-name>file</param-name>
>>
>>                     <param-value>/usr/share/spice/__SpiceX.cab</param-value>
>>                                     </init-param>
>>                                   </servlet>
>>                                   <servlet-mapping>
>>
>>                     <servlet-name>SpiceX.cab</__servlet-name>
>>
>>                     <url-pattern>/spice/SpiceX.__cab</url-pattern>
>>                                   </servlet-mapping>
>>
>>                                 - Next create an html file within
>>
>>                     /usr/share/ovirt-engine/__engine.ear/root.war
>>                                 - In the example below an html file
>>                     called "spice.html"
>>                                 - Copy/Paste the below into spice.html:
>>
>>                                 <!DOCTYPE html>
>>                                 <html>
>>                                 <head>
>>                                 <title>SPICE Plugin Installer</title>
>>
>>                                 <script type="text/javascript">
>>                                 function installSpice()
>>                                 {
>>                                 try {
>>
>>                     document.getElementById('__SpiceX').innerHTML =
>>                                 '<OBJECT id="SpiceX"
>>                     codebase="/spice/SpiceX.cab"
>>
>>                     classid="clsid:ACD6D89C-938D-__49B4-8E81-DDBD13F4B48A"
>>                                 width="0" height="0"></OBJECT>';
>>                                     } catch (ex) {
>>                                         alert("Epic Fail!: " +
>>                     ex.Description);
>>                                     }
>>                                 }
>>                                 </script>
>>
>>                                 </head>
>>                                 <body>
>>                                     <p>
>>                                     <p><b id='SpiceX'>Spice ActiveX
>>                     Plugin</b> </p>
>>                                     <button
>>                     onclick='installSpice()'>__Install Spice
>>                                 Plugin</button>
>>                                     </p>
>>                                 </body>
>>                                 </html>
>>
>>                                 - Save the file
>>                                 - You will now need to restart the
>>                     ovirt-engine service
>>                                 EG: systemctl restart
>>                     ovirt-engine.service OR service
>>                                 ovirt-engine restart
>>                                 - The installer page will now be
>>                     available at
>>                                 http://<url to ovirt
>>                     server>/spice.html EX:
>>                     http://ovirt.azeroth.net/__spice.html
>>                     <http://ovirt.azeroth.net/spice.html>
>>                                 - Navigate to that page and click the
>>                     install button
>>                                 - IE will prompt you to deploy/install
>>                     the SpiceX
>>                                 cabinet file
>>                                 - It may gripe about an unsigned or
>>                     untrusted source,
>>                                 acknowledge this an proceed anyways
>>                                 - If the install succeeds the text
>>                     "Spice ActiveX
>>                                 Plugin" on the page will change to
>>                     blank (it's actually
>>                                 the plugin with null values)
>>                                 - The console button in the user and
>>                     webadmin portals
>>                                 will now launch the new virt-viwer
>>                     spice based console!
>>
>>                                 Happy Spice Consoling to your VM's
>>                     from Windows!
>>
>>                                 *NOTE*
>>                                 To uninstall the plugin:
>>                                 - The below removes the add-on from IE
>>                     (EG: removes
>>                                 knowledge of "application/x-spice")
>>                                 - pop a command terminal and type:
>>                                 On Windows XP: regsvr32 /u
>>                     "C:\Documents and
>>                                 Settings\Administrator\Local
>>                     Settings\Application
>>                                 Data\virt-viewer\bin\SpiceX.__dll"
>>                                 On Windows 7 regsvr32 /u C:\Documents and
>>                                 Settings\Administrator\Local
>>
>>                     Settings\AppData\virt-viewer\__bin\SpiceX.dll"
>>                                 - Next we need to remove the rest of
>>                     virt-viewer
>>                                 - Go to add/remove programs and
>>                     uninstall virt-viewer,
>>                                 this removes the rest of virt-viewer
>>                     from the system
>>
>>
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>>                         --
>>                         Cheers
>>                         Douglas
>>
>>
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>>                 Thanks
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>>                 @RobertM (OFTC IRC)
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