[Ovirt-devel] Re: [PATCH server] allow admin to setup iptables port forwarding on server for a vm's vnc port

[David Lutterkort]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 11:42 -0500, Mohammed Morsi wrote:
> I would say its just another use case, eg since the default is to
> autoassign the port, is there really any drawback to allowing an
> administrator to manually set it?

It complicates things (e.g. that you need to assign the port when the VM
is created)

It's enough to autoassign a port when the VM is started (assuming the
user checked the 'forward vnc port' checkbox), and display the assigned
port in the VM details. I don't see much point in manually managing port
allocations.

A more interesting feature than manual port assignment would be to allow
to set port forwarding up for a VM that is already running - but that's
something we can add in later.

David