Need more doc for libvirt-console-proxy

[Guy Godfroy]

Hello,

Friendly ping about this info request.

I tried again and all my questions remain.

Thanks.

Guy Godfroy

Le 22/04/2021 à 11:17, Guy Godfroy a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I'm making a web app for my company that will enable different teams to
> manage their own VMs. I wish to make possible to interact with each VM
> console, so I plan to use some xterm.js with websockets.
> 
> So I discovered libvirt-console-proxy [1] when I looked for something to
> put a libvirt console into a websocket. That seems like the right tool
> for the job.
> 
> The only doc I found is this article from 2017 [2]. After trying to
> understand from this article and from --help, I still have many
> questions. I am really bad at reading code so I can't even get answers
> from the sources.
> 
> My main concern is: How a client is supposed to talk to the proxy? It is
> said that a security token must be provided. How? HTTP header? Which
> header? Am I missing something in websocket protocol? I think an example
> client implementation would help a lot.
> 
> Also, I tried to use virtconsoleresolveradm to set up metadata on my
> domains like explained in the article [1] :
> 
> ./virtconsoleresolveradm enable milou
> Enabled access to domain 'milou'
> 
> But that doesn't seem to do anything (except defining the metadata
> namespace in the XML):
> 
>      virsh metadata milou http://libvirt.org/schemas/console-proxy/1.0
>      <consoles/>
> 
> I precise that I have already this in my XML:
> 
>      <serial type='pty'>
>        <target type='isa-serial' port='0'>
>          <model name='isa-serial'/>
>        </target>
>      </serial>
>      <console type='pty'>
>        <target type='serial' port='0'/>
>      </console>
> 
> Should I remove that? Should I edit that?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Guy Godfroy
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-console-proxy
> [2]
> https://www.berrange.com/posts/2017/01/26/announce-new-libvirt-console-proxy-project/
>