[Engine-devel] Adding VNC support

[Itamar Heim]

On 07/28/2012 03:31 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>
>> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden" <ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>, engine-devel at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 12:01:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Adding VNC support
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>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 16:55 , Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
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>>> 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.
>> 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
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> Right.
> Exactly what I think.
> In time the installation of the client can set up the MIME binding automatically.

that means patching all the vnc clients iiuc, to set mime for multiple 
browser versions?