[Engine-devel] Couple of small Feature Requests

[David Jaša]

Hi,

Dead Horse píše v Čt 11. 10. 2012 v 12:00 -0500:
> Would like to make a couple of small feature requests.
> 
> 1) Allow for the SPICE or VNC password to be set in the UI by admin's
> or power users.
> Benefit: (Assumes spice SSL has been disabled) allows user or admin to
> set a password for access by a standalone remote session via vncviewer
> or remote-viewer or the spice html5 implementation which is WIP, or
> standalone HW thin client
> - This may also assume that vdsm is running with SSL disabled as well
> to have had vdsm make the neccesary changes to the qemu spice
> configuration

Drawback: users can choose repetitive and/or weak passwords. Generating
a new random password for each connection is the best thing from
security POV in my opinion.

> 
> 2) Display currently configured OR generated password and IP/Port for
> either VNC or SPICE console of the VM within the PUP and Admin UI
> Benefit: At the very least a standalone remote client can be used to
> connect once the password and IP/PORT is known for spice or VNC 
>  - Currently VNC will display a dialog that shows the this info but it
> would be more useful to have it displayed in the UI given proper
> privilege

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843397
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843410

> 
> 3) Display the UUID of a VM in the Admin UI (similar to the how the
> disks tab breaks down and shows DISK UUID mappings)
> - Benefit: Easier for administrators to map UUID to VM config file
> data in the data stores or export domains

IMO full uuid should be displayed in General subtab only because it's
too long to have it as a column.

It would be nice to see it in a column though in some shortened form
because it could probably enable relaxing of
unique-name-of-VM-in-whole-setup restriction.

David

> 
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