On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 02:57:45PM -0700, r-c@rocketmail.com wrote:

Hello libvirt-list..

Firstly I hope this is the appropriate forum for this question, I tried the IRC channel but didn't get any response...

Anyway, currently libvirt has console functionality built into it that can be used on a Dom0 e.g. 'virsh console xenU' to connect and open guest xenU's console. I think it would be excellent if there could be a feature added to the libvirt daemon to operate this console externally! E.g. from an external machine I can do (in python) something like: domain.openConsole() .readConsole() .writeConsole() flushConsole()... hopefully that could be very nice to implement a remote Ajaxterm with more security and no reliance to run unnecessary services on the Dom0 since libvirtd is already running :-)

I hope this makes sense, but if you perhaps thinks I going about this the wrong way please let me know!

Not at all. Tunnelling consoles will actually be incredibly easy once I finish off adding the generic data streams API support in libvirt and the libvirtd daemon. My work in progress data stream APIs are being updated at this location http://gitorious.org/~berrange/libvirt/staging/commits/data-streams This is the same stuff we're using for the secure migration stream support too Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|