[Users] connecting to oVirt/RHEV VMs through proxy and the oVirt API

[Juan Hernandez]

On 01/17/2014 12:30 AM, i iordanov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My apologies for cross-posting, but this discussion concerns both
> mailing lists, I think.
> 
> In Opaque, I recently started setting the proxy property of SpiceSession
> from a console file, as is done in remote-viewer, in order to support
> installations where the nodes are not "visible" from the point of view
> of the client.
> 
> However, then I remembered that I have not seen the proxy property being
> available through the oVirt/RHEV API. I looked at the latest
> remote-viewer code, and I looked through the oVirt/RHEV API
> documentation, and indeed, I see no way to get proxy information other
> than through the console.vv file.
> 
> If I am correct, then this means that both Opaque and remote-viewer
> cannot connect to VMs behind a proxy unless a console.vv file is used,
> which also means that since console.vv files are unobtainable through
> the User Portal on mobile devices, mobile devices effectively cannot at
> all connect to such VMs if the user is not an Administrator.
> 
> Would it be possible to expose the proxy parameter through the API? I
> couldn't find a bug opened about this, but it doesn't mean it isn't
> there :).
> 
> Thanks!
> iordan
> 

You are right. Obtaining the global proxy setting is currently
impossible in the API. There is no bug requesting it, as far as I know.
Can you open a new one?

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