[Engine-devel] Frontend questions.

[Adam Young]

On 09/20/2012 02:44 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 09/19/2012 06:51 PM, snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>      I am looking at adding support for novnc in ovirt. I have not
>> worked on the frontend and thought of asking some questions to the list
>> to save time.
>>
>>      Currently, when a user selects to open console on a VM with VNC.
>> They get a popup window with IP, port and password for VNC session. I
>> plan to take this info to host and run the command -
>>
>>    novnc_server --vnc IP:(port-5900)
>>
>> This command returns a URL, use this url to open a new browser window
>> which will be a vnc session to the VM.
>>
>>     My questions are -
>>
>> 1. How to run the novnc-server command on the host?
>
> i can't say i like the idea of launching these on the engine, but we 
> can start with making this work first with these limitations. 
> hopefully these aren't too resource intensive.
> ohad - how do you deal with this in foreman?
> adam - i saw you pushed these rpms to fedora - can you share how this 
> is launched in openstack? 
  I have to admit I have not looked at it in months.  As I recall, there 
was an URL that included all of the necessary setup information.  I'm on 
PTO this week.  If you still don't have it settled by next week, as k me 
again, and I will check on a live server.


>
> on the technical side, you can launch an external process with the 
> relevant parameters.
> though we probably need to consider how we could do this not via shell 
> locally, rather via a remote call to allow setting this up on another 
> server than the engine.
>
>
>>
>> 2. How to open a new URL for VNC session?
>
> this should be easy enough to launch another window with the requested 
> url.
> vojtech?
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharad Mishra
>>
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