[virt-tools-list] Add oVirt support to remote-viewer

[Christophe Fergeau]

Forgot to mention that the patch series is available as a git tree at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~teuf/virt-viewer/log/?h=ovirt

Christophe

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 02:23:08PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Lately I've been hacking on making it possible for remote-viewer to connect
> to a VM managed through oVirt/RHEV.
> Theses patches add an ovirt:// uri scheme, ovirt://hostname/vmname will
> access 'vmname' located on the oVirt manager at 'hostname'
> 
> This is done by using the REST API provided by oVirt, accessible at
> http://hostname/api. For now you have to know the admin login/password to
> use this, but it's being improved so that normal users can use it too.
> These patches uses the REST API to find the UUID associated with vmname,
> and then to get the parameters to use (IP, port, ..) to connect to this VM.
> Then a ticket is generated through this API, and we create a
> VirtViewerSessionSpice object to handle the connection.
> 
> There are currently a few limitations:
> * on most setups, you'll need to get the certificate at
>   http://hostname/ca.crt and pass it to remote-viewer with --spice-ca-file
> * it's SPICE only even if supporting VNC as well shouldn't be hard
> * it currently generates a spice://hostname?password=ticket URI because I
>   couldn't find a better way of passing the ticket to
>   VirtViewerSessionSpice (this would probably require a bit of changes).
>   This triggers a spice-gtk warning of being possibly unsecure, and this
>   fails when the ticket contains some special characters (for example '/'
>   breaks spice-gtk URI parser)
> * librest from git (d8db409a6) + the patches from
>   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658937 are needed for 19/20
> 
> The series can be divided in 2 parts. First 01/20 to 14/20 (included) add
> new Ovirt* classes which use librest and are used to interact with oVirt
> REST API. I've split these commits in case it's easier to review, but it
> may be more convenient to review just the end result. These classes are
> independant from remote-viewer and can be reused in other projects. I'll
> probably put them in a library at some point.
> 
> Then 15/20 to 20/20 implement a VirtViewerSessionOvirt object which uses
> the Ovirt* classes to implement the actual logic of going from vmname to a
> SPICE connection.
> 
> I've tested this code with 2 RHEV instances and it's working very nicely
> for me, so it should be good to go in after reviews and after the librest
> API lands in git (and possibly in a release)
> 
> Christophe
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> virt-tools-list mailing list
> virt-tools-list at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/attachments/20120613/7620397c/attachment.sig>