Re: [libvirt] some questions about libvirt features and limitations
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:28:56AM +0100, Pritesh Kothari wrote:
Hi Florian,
>
> Someone mentioned a VirtualBox driver. I'm highly interested in this.
> How is it going ? I'd be more than happy to beta test if required. Will
> it work with both PUEL and OSE versions ? When will it be ready for
> inclusion in libvirt ? How will you handle RDP access, as from what I
> saw only VNC is supported in libvirt currently ?
I am currently working on Virtualbox driver and they are still in nascent
stage of development.
Yes they will support both the versions cause they depend on the Common Main
VirtualBox API.
About inclusion in libvirt, that will depend on the libvirt community, as I
would submit the patches but only on review/ack by all they will pass on
upstream.
We'd very much like to see VirtualBox suported as a driver in libvirt
because its a pretty popular open source virt technology and there have
been quite a few feature requests from users for it to be included.
Not reached the stage of deciding on RDP/VNC yet but any help in it
will be
appreciated.
I see no problem in supporting RDP as an option for VirtualBox. We
already have two possible <graphics> tags
<graphics type='sdl' display=":0.0"
xauth="/root/.Xauthority"/>
And
<graphics type='vnc' listen='0.0.0.0' port='5901'
autoport='yes'/>
So we can easily add another option for RDP, which I'd guess would
be very similar to the VNC options, since its another client/server
network based system
<graphics type='rdp' listen='0.0.0.0' port='5901'
autoport='yes'/>
Regards,
Daniel
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