Re: [libvirt] Remotable Libvirt
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 04:02:42PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 03:59:10PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:26:47AM -0700, Peter wrote:
> > The majority of cockpit is implemented in
> > javascript.
>
> How about using the gobject libvirt bindings?
>
> https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-glib.git;a=summary
>
> They should be usable from Javascript directly, as in the .js example
> here:
>
>
https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-glib.git;a=tree;f=examples;h=d63d5964b...
They're usable from a standalone javascript interpretor, but there's no
way to use them from a client side javascript interpretor in the user's
web browser.
Hmm OK, I thought "implemented in javascript" meant they were using
server-side Javascript.
I see that cockpit runs two processes on the server (cockpit-ws and
ssh-agent).
I had a look at one of the modules in the source (pkg/systemd). It's
running local commands (eg. "grep"), and issuing dbus calls which
AFAIK cannot be issued over the network.
Can Peter explain a bit more about the architecture of Cockpit?
Where does the Javascript run? What JS engine runs it?
Rich.
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