[Engine-devel] Adding VNC support

[Alon Bar-Lev]

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.

Regards,
Alon.

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