Re: [Engine-devel] Adding VNC support

From: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden" <ewoud+ovirt(a)kohlvanwijngaarden.nl&gt;, engine-devel(a)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(a)kohlvanwijngaarden.nl&gt; wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 07:36:43AM -0700, >> snmishra(a)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

> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843410 > _______________________________________________ > Engine-devel mailing list > Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel