[libvirt] RFC: virt-console

[John Levon]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:14:04PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> > >   okay, I wasn't sure it was the plan and I was asking. As Dan pointed 
> > > out it's the right approach, okay, I'm just surprized.
> > 
> > To be clear, we'd love to see a remote console implementation happen,
> > it's just not a priority for us right now.
> 
> Newer QEMU also supports the 'telnet' protocol, so we might be better off
> just telling people to use a telnet client, and keep this for local only
> PTY based console access.

Indeed, this is what we're doing for debugging purposes, and it already
works (for HVM only). But of course it's not secure yet, so it's really
no better than just sshing to run virsh console locally.

regards
john