Re: [Users] console confusion
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Bowes" <robin.bowes(a)yo61.com>
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2012 4:21:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Users] console confusion
Ask yourself this: what's the first thing *anyone* is going to want
to do after the initial install/setup? Yes, that's right - create a
VM and connect to the console to do an install.
Switching to a new protocol (spice) is all very well, but only if
clients are easily available for all common platforms. As I
understand things, it's only available as a package on F16?
We are packing it now for Windows, we have this packaged downstream (RHEV), now we're
re-working that for upstream.
The work is ongoing we need to add to the matrix. Other distributions are starting to
package spice now.
After that we need to look at other platforms such as Mac OS.
Now, the non-availability of spice clients should not be a problem as
oVirt also supports VNC which has always been perfectly adequate as
a remote client for me in the past (esp. for headless, console-based
servers). But, there is no easy way to find the VNC port that a
given VM is using or to set the VNC password. I figured it out, and
could probably script something to do it automatically, but that
should be necessary for such a fundamental task!
Please forgive my rant, but I'd just like to say that, as someone
coming new to oVirt, I think the whole console issue is a bit of a
mess and should be made a priority to sort out.
Agree, but remember with oVirt you're working with a community project not an end-user
product where you can make feature requests.
There are interesting options for VNC, most notably NoVNC that could be integrated - but
it needs someone to drive this.
In the mean time there's a relatively straightforward way to launch a VNC client for a
VM by using the API.
Dan's working on an example of that now that we'll post on the wiki,
Aic
R.
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