[Engine-devel] Adding VNC support

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Grinberg" <simon at redhat.com>
> To: snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:57:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Adding VNC support
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> > To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:36:43 PM
> > Subject: [Engine-devel] Adding VNC support
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >     I am looking at adding VNC support in ovirt. What does the
> > community think? Ideas, suggestions, comments?
> 
> If you can, I think it will be welcomed.
> 
> The problem (as I recall, and I may be wrong) is that there is no VNC
> xpi available, thus connection is not possible directly through the
> portal. If you want to use VNC it is possible today, you'll have to
> set the ticket/password via the API and the connect with VNC viewer.
> 
> With that said, my personal opinion is that it's not necessary except
> for those who really like VNC. SPICE has an available XPI, and when
> you don't use the Spice Drivers the default mode is in par with VNC.
> So why to bother?

if you don't have a spice client installed, if you have really bad bandwidth, if you're on a Mac, iOS, etc........


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> > 
> > Thanks
> > Sharad Mishra
> > IBM
> > 
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