[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH v2] [Kimchi 0/8] Web serial console

[Jose Ricardo Ziviani]

v2:
 - applied code review
 - updated the build system

This is the initial version of a web serial console for kimchi/libvirt
VMs.

When a VM is turned on, a new action is displayed named "Connect
Serial", this will open a new tab with an interface like the existing
novnc.

That interface opens a websocket to kimchi webserver (nginx), then
it is redirected to websockify. Websockify will proxy that connection to
a local unix socket server to finally communicate with the guest
console.

I chose to create one server per guest because that's the way websockify
was designed (it was born inside novnc), so I could reuse the token
security plugin implemented in websockify. In order to avoid wasting
resources I decided to user unix socket, a local/lightweight/reliable
socket if compared with internet sockets, this uses files instead of
ports to accept connections.

When a connection is established no one else can get that console (I'm
not multiplexing it but it's possible in future). The serial console
will be available again if the current user does one of:
 - type ctrl+q
 - close the tab
 - 2 min. timeout

Thanks

Jose Ricardo Ziviani (8):
  Rename vnc.py to websocket.py
  Implement the web serial console server
  Implement the backend to support web serial console
  Implement the web serial console front-end
  Import term.js to Kimchi project
  Implement the Kimchi front-end for the web serial console
  Update the build system to make the serial console
  Add test case for the socket server

 Makefile.am                    |    4 +-
 config.py.in                   |    6 +-
 configure.ac                   |    2 +
 control/vms.py                 |    3 +-
 i18n.py                        |    3 +
 model/vms.py                   |   43 +-
 root.py                        |    6 +-
 serialconsole.py               |  315 +++
 tests/test_model.py            |   28 +-
 ui/Makefile.am                 |    2 +-
 ui/js/src/kimchi.api.js        |   27 +
 ui/js/src/kimchi.guest_main.js |   14 +-
 ui/pages/guest.html.tmpl       |    3 +-
 ui/serial/Makefile.am          |   23 +
 ui/serial/images/Makefile.am   |   21 +
 ui/serial/images/favicon.ico   |  Bin 0 -> 15086 bytes
 ui/serial/serial.html          |   99 +
 ui/serial/term.js              | 5973 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 vnc.py                         |   92 -
 websocket.py                   |  122 +
 20 files changed, 6677 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 serialconsole.py
 create mode 100644 ui/serial/Makefile.am
 create mode 100644 ui/serial/images/Makefile.am
 create mode 100644 ui/serial/images/favicon.ico
 create mode 100644 ui/serial/serial.html
 create mode 100644 ui/serial/term.js
 delete mode 100644 vnc.py
 create mode 100644 websocket.py

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