On 07/26/2012 05:36 PM, snmishra@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
Hi,
I am looking at adding VNC support in ovirt. What does the community think? Ideas, suggestions, comments?
so to sum this up: 1. there is the new dialog to open vnc manually. http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/4790/ 2. Alon suggested it should be allowed to open this dialog for spice as well, not only for vnc. 3. Alon also suggested to have a launch button on that window (or parallel to it) which will try to launch vnc or spice by returning a specific mime type response, allowing client to choose the vnc/spice client to run for this mime type, and passing command line parameters to it in the mime type reply. 4. provide a vnc xpi/activex wrappers to allow launching it via web browsers like spice main limitation of this compared to novnc is you need to do this for every browser/platform. 5. novnc 5.1 novnc client - i'd start with the one recently pushed to fedora. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822187 5.2 novnc websocket server - i see three options 5.2.1 extend qemu to do this, so novnc can connect to it directly like we do today for vnc/spice 5.2.2 use the python based one from: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822187 5.2.3 look at a java based websocket solution, assuming easier to deploy it as part of webadmin/user portal war than another service (requires a bit of research) looking forward user portal and webadmin would be deployed on multiple hosts, so a websockets would need to be deployed next to them. from the little i looked at, the various websocket implementations are mostly nascent and are not scaleable/robust/etc. I'd love to be proven wrong, and worth playing with them a bit to measure that. 6. spice.html5 while very nascent - worth mentioning on this thread and trying to take a look: http://www.spice-space.org/page/Html5