[Ovirt-devel] Re: oVirt console (again!)

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 05:01:18PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On the call today we discussed:
> 
>  (4) Write a custom C/Gtk/Gtk-VNC Windows program which contacts the
>      oVirt WUI to do authentication, get available consoles, and
>      launch a Gtk-VNC widget with the appropriate tunnelling
>      (openssh.exe based?).

This is actually quite a good idea - a oVirt thin client desktop. You
could even add in some basic operations like stop/start/blah, and they
can avoid the web UI completely for day-to-day work.

Basically this is kind of a cross of virt-viewer + vinagre, but talking
to oVirt instead of libvirt. Or you could write a libvirt driver that
talks to oVirt - cf the OpenNebula guys

Daniel
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