Forgot to mention that the patch series is available as a git tree at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~teuf/virt-viewer/log/?h=ovirt Christophe On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 02:23:08PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > Lately I've been hacking on making it possible for remote-viewer to connect > to a VM managed through oVirt/RHEV. > Theses patches add an ovirt:// uri scheme, ovirt://hostname/vmname will > access 'vmname' located on the oVirt manager at 'hostname' > > This is done by using the REST API provided by oVirt, accessible at > http://hostname/api. For now you have to know the admin login/password to > use this, but it's being improved so that normal users can use it too. > These patches uses the REST API to find the UUID associated with vmname, > and then to get the parameters to use (IP, port, ..) to connect to this VM. > Then a ticket is generated through this API, and we create a > VirtViewerSessionSpice object to handle the connection. > > There are currently a few limitations: > * on most setups, you'll need to get the certificate at > http://hostname/ca.crt and pass it to remote-viewer with --spice-ca-file > * it's SPICE only even if supporting VNC as well shouldn't be hard > * it currently generates a spice://hostname?password=ticket URI because I > couldn't find a better way of passing the ticket to > VirtViewerSessionSpice (this would probably require a bit of changes). > This triggers a spice-gtk warning of being possibly unsecure, and this > fails when the ticket contains some special characters (for example '/' > breaks spice-gtk URI parser) > * librest from git (d8db409a6) + the patches from > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658937 are needed for 19/20 > > The series can be divided in 2 parts. First 01/20 to 14/20 (included) add > new Ovirt* classes which use librest and are used to interact with oVirt > REST API. I've split these commits in case it's easier to review, but it > may be more convenient to review just the end result. These classes are > independant from remote-viewer and can be reused in other projects. I'll > probably put them in a library at some point. > > Then 15/20 to 20/20 implement a VirtViewerSessionOvirt object which uses > the Ovirt* classes to implement the actual logic of going from vmname to a > SPICE connection. > > I've tested this code with 2 RHEV instances and it's working very nicely > for me, so it should be good to go in after reviews and after the librest > API lands in git (and possibly in a release) > > Christophe > > > _______________________________________________ > virt-tools-list mailing list > virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
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