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RVC is a Linux console UI for vSphere, built on the RbVmomi bindings to the vSphere API.
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Add vnc option to configure the websocket proxy #81

Closed dougm closed 11 years ago

dougm commented 11 years ago

'vnc --ws' will configure a RemoteDisplay.vnc.webSocket.port and rather than spawn a VNC client, prints a noVNC.com URL which can be opened in any HTML5 compliant browser.

dougm commented 11 years ago

ESXi 5.5 is required. Does not require vCenter or WebClient.

Not sure why, but needed a separate ReconfigVM with webSocket.port and it needed happen before the existing ReconfigVM. Otherwise, the webSocket.port property was applied to the vmx file, but MKS-RemoteMgr didn't start the websocket proxy unless the VM was power cycled.

For more info on noVNC: http://kanaka.github.io/noVNC/

cdickmann commented 11 years ago

This looks good. But should we reset the port on disable so folks can switch to normal mode?

dougm commented 11 years ago

The patch includes disabling vnc.webSocket.port with the 'off' command. When vnc is enabled with --ws, the normal vnc.port is also enabled, I believe the websocket proxy talks to this port. And you can still connect to vnc.port with a regular VNC client when vnc.webSocket.port is enabled.