[Users] concurrent SPICE access [was: Re: oVirt 3.5 planning]

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/26/2014 11:07 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
> Well, as I mentioned in the BZ:
>
> Shared access does work for novnc console, maybe this is good
> enough for your needs?

how does it work wrt to the ticketing mechanism?

>
> Am 26.02.2014 09:09, schrieb Markus Stockhausen:
>>> Von: Michal Skrivanek [mskrivan at redhat.com]
>>>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2014 08:49
>>>> An: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>>>> Cc: Markus Stockhausen; Itamar Heim; Users at ovirt.org Users
>>>> Betreff: concurrent SPICE access [was: Re: [Users] oVirt 3.5 planning]
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 25, 2014, at 20:38 , Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> On 02/25/2014 09:20 PM, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
>>>>>>>> 3) Shared console access for two or more administrators
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060854
>>>>>>
>>>>>> michal - is this just a config in the .vv file? I'd expect qemu needs to support
>>>>>> this as well? especially since the ticketing mechanism is designed to disconnect previous user?
>>>>
>>>> last time I remember the concurrent connection to SPICE was experimental
>>>> Did it change since?
>>>>
>>>> yes, if it is supported now the oVirt ticketing would need to be changed or disabled
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> michal
>> The request was created to allow a general shared access pattern (independent
>> of the console type). In the SPICE case QEMU still spits the message "enable shared
>> spice: ... crashy ..."  At the moment both console types lack shared sessions because of:
>>
>> - VNC: Virt-Viewer opens the connection with exclusive access
>>    (qemu token disconnect does not work at all)
>> - SPICE: Ovirt/libvirt do not instruct qemu to enable shared access &
>>    token generation enforces disconnect
>>
>> The idea behind it, is to have a check-button on the console settings page that
>> enables/disables shared access. At least vor VNC.
>>
>> Markus
>>
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