[Engine-devel] Adding VNC support

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden" <ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>, engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 12:01:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Adding VNC support
> 
> 
> On Jul 26, 2012, at 16:55 , Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden
> > <ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 07:36:43AM -0700,
> >> snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> >>> I am looking at adding VNC support in ovirt. What does the
> >>> community
> >>> think? Ideas, suggestions, comments?
> >> By that I think you mean adding VNC support to the java-based web
> >> interface. In that case +1. I can recommend noVNC[1], but you do
> >> need a
> >> websockets proxy. I can recommend VNCAuthProxy[2] as a
> >> programmable
> >> proxy with a JSON control channel. On the plus side all
> >> dependencies are
> >> in fedora/epel. Downside is no IPv6 support. Maybe you can also
> >> write a
> >> pure java implementation integrate this into the engine itself?
> >> 
> >> [1]: http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/
> >> [2]: https://code.osuosl.org/projects/twisted-vncauthproxy/
> > 
> > Or launch client program via MIME bindings[1] both for Vnc and
> > Spice.
> > Not as neat as "noVnc" but will work in most scenarios, without
> > having
> > to maintain the actual console implementation.
> I would think there are many people out there who are not able to use
> current spice client, or not willing to(hate switching from chrome
> to firefox:-)
> Sure they can set up things manually but it would be way more
> convenient to allow a simple external launch of their VNC client of
> choice

Right.
Exactly what I think.
In time the installation of the client can set up the MIME binding automatically.

> > 
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843410
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