[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] virt-manager: Use avahi to poll for local servers

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:25:05AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:28:18AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > The attached patch adds support for avahi polling
> > to the virt-manager 'Open Connection' dialog.
> > libvirtd advertises itself via avahi so we get the
> > hard stuff for free :). To test this you will need
> > to make sure Multicast DNS (mDNS, port 5353 udp) is
> > open on your machine.
> > 
> > I had a few more screenshots but fedorapeople isn't
> > responding. The basic flow is: 'Open Conn' defaults
> > to selecting a local connection, so the 'browse'
> > checkbox and list are inactive. If a remote conn
> > type is selected, the 'browse' checkbox and 
> > 'hostname' field become active, but we don't
> > immediately default to actually browsing the
> > network. Once the 'browse' checkbox is clicked the
> > list becomes active and starts asynchronously
> > populating. When an entry in the list is selected
> > its hostname (or IP address if the hostname wasn't
> > resolved) is placed in the "hostname" field.

I think there needs to be some uniqueness filtering because its adding the
same entry multiple times !

The 'Browse hosts' checkbox is overkill - just always have it enabled.
There's no need to provide a way to disable it, since they can already
type in a hostname manually if desired.

When presenting a browse list, the avahi recommendation is to present the
service names

  "Virtual Host t60wlan"

and not show the IP address / hostname to the user.  Let the user pick a
service name, and then turn that into an IP address/hostname when we need
to connect.

Regards,
Daniel
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