[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] Add VNC-Port setting when virt-managercreates VM

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Fri Jun 1 08:57:49 UTC 2007


   Hi,

>   b. The admin of the Dom0 only opens  specific ports for short periods of time. In this
>      case the admin will have to lookup what port corresponds to a VM, so it doesn't matter
>      whether we're using  fixed or dynamic ports, the admin still has same amount of work
>      to lookup a port.

Sorry for jumping in here, but the "lookup port" thingy rings a bell ;)

A IMHO useful feature would be mdns announcements via avahi for vnc 
screens and text consoles (assuming they are not bound to 127.0.0.1, so 
they are actually reachable from other machines).

I've hacked up a mdns announce utility.  Works using xenstore watches. 
Has the drawback of announcing everything (because xenstore doesn't tell 
you whenever it is bound to localhost or not) and is obviously limited 
to xen.  libvirt should be able to do that in a better way.  Or maybe 
qemu should do that directly?

cheers,
   Gerd




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