[virt-tools-list] problems with virt-viewer 2.0-14

[cmc]

Thanks Christophe, will try the ovirt mailing list again.

Cheers,

Cam

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 12:35:19PM +0100, cmc wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> (I'm posting this to the correct list this time)
>>
>> Having trouble launching consoles for VMs in oVirt 4.1 on RHEL 6.8 (virt-viewer
>> 2.0-14). I get:
>>
>> "At least Remote Viewer version 99.0-1 is required to setup this connection"
>>
>> It works fine in RHEL 6.7 (using firefox or chrome). I downgraded the
>> version of virt-viewer to the 6.7 version (2.0-7) in 6.8 but then I
>> get a proxy error (no proxy is set in the browser).
>>
>> Can someone tell me whether it is possible to get virt-viewer to
>> launch a console for a VM with oVirt 4.1 and RHEL 6.8? This redhat
>> article (https://access.redhat.com/articles/2800531) says you need to
>> upgrade to RHEL 7.x, but that is not an option for us unfortunately.
>> I've also read that it
>> was possible with a workaround with oVirt 4.0 but not 4.1.
>
> This would be something to bring up with either Red Hat support or the
> oVirt project, the limitation was added on the server side, this is not
> a really remote-viewer issue.
>
> Christophe