On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:22:21PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > This adds a virt-viewer browser plugin which works on Firefox / Mozilla > and probably other NPAPI-based browsers on Unix-like systems. > > The plugin is placed in the plugin/ subdirectory. > > Libtool is required (since the plugin is a shared library). > > The plugin is disabled by default. To enable it you have to do > './configure --enable-plugin'. > > To use the plugin, place code such as this in a web page: > > <embed type="application/x-virt-viewer" > width="800" > height="600" > uri="qemu:///system" > name="1"> > </embed> > > The width & height are required, and should be at least as large as the > virtual machine's console. (Because Gecko + Gtk plugins are really > buggy we are unable to place scrollbars or a menubar around the VNC widget). > > 'uri' (libvirt URI) and 'name' (domain name/ID/UUID) are required. > > Optionally you can also have waitvnc="1" and direct="1" which have the > same effect as the equivalent virt-viewer command line options. > > Screenshot: http://annexia.org/tmp/Screenshot-SeaMonkey.png > > Known bugs, at least 4 at the moment: > > (1) There's a strange race condition where Gecko renders the plugin > before rendering the surrounding page. This results in a segfault > because the browser sends uninitialized private data to the plugin. > > (2) The plugin cannot grab the mouse, so mouse handling is erratic. Hmm, that should be fixable - X allows grabs to be constrained to arbitrary windows, not just top level, so the browser widget ought to be able to grab it. > (3) Virt-viewer menubar doesn't render correctly, so in this version it > is disabled. Appears to be a general problem with Gecko + Gtk. Could perhaps use a combo of Ctrl+Alt + Right click to display a popup menu instead of the menu bar. Just use a plain right click of course in case a remote server wants it. > > (4) There are various rendering artifacts on framebuffer updates, but > they only affect movement/animation, eg. dragging windows. When the > animation has finished the rendering artifacts disappear. This one's very odd. Did the plain GTK-VNC plugin show the same thing or is it just the virt-viewer variant ? Despite these issues, I applied the patch - since it is disabled by default it won't hurt to have it in the repo & saves carrying around separate patches. 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
