[Engine-devel] Adding VNC support

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden" <ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>
> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 1:00:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Adding VNC support
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:09:26AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:18:50AM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
> > > On 07/26/2012 05:36 PM, snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > I don't think this is a desirable approach. One of the nice
> > benefits
> > you gain from using a websocket proxy is that you only need to have
> > one single TCP port exposed to the internet now. If you put
> > websockets
> > in QEMU itself, you'd be stuck with having to open your firewall to
> > allow 100's of ports. With a separate web proxy, you can even make
> > each QEMU server now use a local UNIX socket for their VNC server,
> > since only the proxy needs to be able to connect. This means that
> > the VNC server would no longer be exposed to random local user
> > access too.
> 
> Another benefit of a proxy is that you can run it in a DMZ and not
> have
> to expose all your virtualization hosts to the internet.

But this way you do expose them :)

Alon.