[Users] GNOME Boxes/oVirt integration

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On 24/07/12 12:15, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I've blogged yesterday about the recent work I've done to add oVirt support
> to GNOME Boxes ( https://live.gnome.org/Boxes/ ) using oVirt REST API:
> 
> http://cfergeau.blogspot.fr/2012/07/outside-boxes.html
> 

That's great, looks good.


> «  Outside Boxes
> 
>         oVirt
> 
> Let's start this post with a quick presentation of oVirt (you'll understand
> why in a few paragraphs...).
> oVirt is a free project providing management, monitoring and provisioning
> of KVM virtual machines on multiple hosts. It comes with a web interface to
> create and manage virtual machines, hypervisor nodes, storage, ... and with
> a user portal for those who just want to connect to an already existing
> virtual machine.
> The way the user portal works is that you log into the portal from your
> browser, then you choose the virtual machine you want to connect to, and a
> browser plugin will take over and spawn an external binary (these days it's
> remote-viewer)
> oVirt also comes with an extensive REST API which lets you do
> programmatically the same thing as you can do from oVirt web UIs. Moreover,
> it has an extensive documentation.
> 
> 
>         But what about GNOME?
> 
> And now we are finally coming as to why I'm talking about all of this :)
> Lately, I've been hacking on Boxes, and since one of its goals is to view,
> access, and use shared connection / machine, I've decided it would be fun
> to make it support oVirt connections! This would make it easier for Boxes
> users to connect to oVirt virtual machines without having to go through
> their browser.
> 
> librest already provides a good low-level GObject library to access REST
> services (though it was missing authentication support), so I used it to
> build a higher level library which wraps the oVirt REST accesses:
> libgovirt. This library uses GObject and gobject-introspection, which gives
> bindings to several other languages for free (including vala which is
> needed for Boxes). It also provides asynchronous methods for all its remote
> operations.
> The library is still young and only implements the few REST operations I
> needed (list oVirt virtual machines, get VM connection details, generate
> temporary VM display password, ...), but this is enough for Boxes needs ;)
> 
> Once this library was in good shape, using it in Boxes was quite easy as
> the existing code was modular enough. All I had to do was to add a new URI
> type (ovirt://), and add a new Machine subclass to handle oVirt VMs, but
> most of the work is done by the libgovirt library.
> 
> This work is not yet merged upstream but can be seen in my personal git
> repository. After some small cleanups and a libgovirt release, it should be
> in good shape for an upstream review and integration. As for libgovirt,
> there is a lot of API to bind (help welcome!), but binding this new 3.1 API
> will be mandatory to be able to connect to all oVirt-managed VMs. One
> possible way forward for libgovirt would be to leverage the python oVirt
> REST binding generator from ovirt-engine-sdk.
> 
> And before ending this blog post, mandatory screenshots! »
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christophe
> 
> 
> 
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