I've recently been working on a new VNC viewer widget for virt-manager which supports SSL extensions for VNC, and in the future will also be able to do things like tunnel audio & usb devices over the channel, scaling of desktop. It occurred to me that it would be useful to have access to this in a lighter weight application than virt-manager, as a 'vncviewer' replacement, while also adding in the convenience of not having to lookup the VNC port for a virtual machine each time. So I wrote Virtual Machine Viewer - aka virt-viewer. It has near zero UI around it, aside from a menu bar to let you send special key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+XXXX to the guest. At most I might add a start/stop/pause menu option, but I don't want this application to ever get any more complicted than a single window & a small (optional) tool/menu bar. Some example usage... To connect to the guest called â??demoâ?? running under Xen virt-viewer demo To connect to the guest with ID 7 running under QEMU virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system 7 To wait for the Xen guest with UUID 66ab33c0-6919-a3f7-e659-16c82d248521 to startup and then connect virt-viewer --wait 66ab33c0-6919-a3f7-e659-16c82d248521 In the future it will also accept libvirt 'remote' URIs, so it can connect to the VNC server over SSH, or SSL/TLS. I've litterally only written it this afternoon, so there's no formal release, but in the spirit of 'release early, release often', the GPL code is in mercurial at: http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-viewer--devel As with virt-manager, the virt-viewer app is GPL licensed It uses the GTK-VNC widget for display, which is also not released yet, but will hopefully be in the near future. Meanwhile it LGPL and it's mercurial repo is at: http://gtk-vnc.codemonkey.ws/hg/outgoing.hg/ Once we've got formal release of both of these tools, I plan to adapt the virt-install code so that it uses virt-viewer instead of vncviewer. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
