[Ovirt-devel] virt-viewer plugin integration issues

[Alan Pevec]

Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Perry N. Myers wrote:
>> Dan you mentioned just falling back and using straight vnc plugin since we 
>> don't need the vnc port lookup since oVirt Server has that info.  That 
>> doesn't work for when Node is in standalone mode with no server...  And 
>> besides in standalone mode libvirt has to do digest-md5 since we have no 
>> kerberos infrastructure in that mode.
> 
> One thought.  You *can* setup libvirt to do completely unencrypted tcp
> communication; you just need to set up libvirtd.conf properly.  So maybe we can
> just do that in standalone mode, and bypass the digest-md5 thing altogether?
> Since we aren't ever leaving the local node with the traffic, we really
> shouldn't have a security concern.  Then (I think) we would be able to use the
> VNC plugin.

Connection to libvirt is for virt-viewer to look up the VNC port,
and oVirt Server stores port in the database (updated by host-status daemon)
so you have all the info (hostname+port) to start any VNC client.

In standalone you must use virt-viewer since otherwise you don't know VNC port.

But you're right, in standalone mode we should just disable libvirt remoting and use local qemu:///system URL.