[Ovirt-devel] ovirt demo appliance

[Perry N. Myers]

Chris Barclay wrote:
> Apologies for clogging up the devel list with a question on the beta 
> appliance but I don't see any other user forums.

This is the right forum :)  We've only got one mailing list for the time 
being.

> I've followed all the steps listed on your appliance download page 
> http://www.ovirt.org/download.html 
>  
> I am able to start firefox, using either ssh -Y or ssh -X, which should 
> redirect firefox display from the appliance to the host.
>  
> However, firefox appears to use the host's configuration information, 
> not the appliance. For example, the start page is 
> http://start.fedoraproject.org versus what's in the appliance's settings 
> http://management.prov.ovirt.org/ovirt ... Also, File | Open shows the 
> host's file system, not the appliance's.
>  
> When I manually try to open http://management.prov.ovirt.org/ovirt there 
> is no page to be displayed. Scanning through the logs in 
> /var/log/ovirt-wui shows nothing too strange (although I don't really 
> know what to look for). A netstat -a does not show any ports open on 80 
> or 443, however.
>  
> Any suggestions?

Yes, add --no-remote to the firefox line.  So that it is:

ssh -Y 192.168.50.2 firefox -no-remote

If you have a locally running firefox sometimes the remote firefox will 
attach to it instead of running a separate instance on the remote server.

Let me know if that works, if not we'll figure out what's going on...

Perry