[Libvir] Add 'console' and 'vncdisplay' commands to virsh

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:34:35AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:58:27AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 
> > The attached patch adds two new commands to virsh:
> > 
> >  - console  - connects to the guest's serial console
> >  - vncdisplay - outputs the ip address & port number of a guest vnc display
> > 
> > The former is another stage in eliminating the need to run 'xm' - replacing
> > the Xen specific 'xm console' code, with the added advantage of working
> > with any libvirt backend driver.
> 
>   Very cool. I wonder if we should not move out virsh specific code to
> a new separate subdir, like for the proxy to clean things up a bit in src/

There's only three files for virsh in there soo far which isn't too many,
so for now I think its fine having it in one place. It makes life easier
with building/testing too because you can build libvirt & run virsh to test
it without changing dirs.

> > The vncdisplay is intended to make it easier for people to launch a
> > VNC viewer process. It prints out a IP address & port number in a format
> > suitable for passing to vncviewer on the command line, eg
> > 
> >    vncviewer `virsh vncdisplay myguest`
> 
>   Okay, the other option would have been to fork vncviewer directly,
> but that's more generic. Seems however that would be incomplete if connecting
> to a remote xend, but that's something we should be able to do properly
> once we have remote support integrated.


I've commited the patches now.

Dan.
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