[openstack-dev] Missing button to send Ctrl+Alt+Del for SPICE Console

Ben Nemec openstack at nemebean.com
Mon Mar 9 18:03:55 UTC 2015


On 03/05/2015 09:34 AM, Andy McCrae wrote:
> Sorry to resurrect this almost a year later! I've recently run into this
> issue, and it does make logging into Windows instances, via the console,
> quite challenging.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com> wrote:
> 
>> This sounds like a reasonable thing to open a bug against Horizon on
>> Launchpad.
> 
> 
> I'm wondering if this is something that should go into Horizon or into
> spice-html5 itself? I noticed this was fixed in ovirt (
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014069), similar to how I
> imagine it would be fixed in Horizon. However, this would mean if, for
> whatever reason, you aren't using Horizon and get the link directly via
> nova (using get-spice-console) you wouldn't get the ctrl-alt-del button.
> 
> Is there a reason it wouldn't go into spice-html5, or that making this
> change in Horizon would be a better change?
> 

I'm not a horizon dev, so I'm not sure I'm really qualified to answer
that question.  That said, if it can be fixed in spice-html5, I agree
that seems like the way to go.



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