[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH] replace gtk-vnc with virt-viewer plugin

[Hugh O. Brock]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:30:07PM -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> open issue:
> >>> - console.rhtml opens as new window, it was displaying gtk-vnc plugin.
> >>>  virt-viewer plugin doesn't display anything, it just launches an
> >>> external
> >>>  virt-viewer program. We could embedd the plugin in show.rhtml, if it
> >>> were
> >>>  possible to control the plugin when to launch virt-viewer.
> >>
> >> Just a question... Is this available on windows? Will it ever be
> >> available on windows?
> >> For most it won't matter, but for some this would be a killer feature.
> >
> > yes, the plan is to have virt-viewer on windows, rjones is working on that
> 
> Great! Is there any timeframe when the developer's appliance will support
> managing vms on localhost? This would bring down the testing barrier
> *substantially* now that cobbler integration is mostly in place.
> 
> My goal is to be able to "apt-get install ovirt" in 1 or 2 ubuntu /
> debian releases
> from now to install the wui and bundled management server. So far freeipa has
> a zillion deps that I'm slowly working out.
> 

Hey Jeff. Yeah we're working on that one too (managing VMs on
localhost) . It won't be in the release we're about to push but it
will certainly be in the next one.

Great news on the debian release, let us know if there's anything we
can do to help.

Take care,
--Hugh