Re: viewing the vm's console
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:22 +1300, Ivan Meredith wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Sander Hoentjen
<sander(a)hoentjen.eu> wrote:
> Deltacloud looks like a very interesting project. I have one question
> though: Will deltacloud support the viewing of the vm's console? I
> understand this will be difficult to implement, since different
> hypervisors use a different protocol, but still i would be important to
> have this ability.
Hi Sander,
I would imagine it would be up to the provider to allow that,
deltacloud is a layer on top of the providers. And the console isnt
really part of a cloud api I think (And may be wrong :))
Well at least in the portal i think it belongs. (vnc and/or spice for
RHEV for example). Suposse someone buys a vm with me:
They would very much like to be able to start/stop a vm, but also view
the console. What good would it do me to use the deltacloud portal, if i
also have to implement viewing the console in a different way?
Maybe i am understanding the project wrong?
At RimuHosting we provide the console over ssh (as I suspect some
others do), I don't know how we would expose that over an API.
Unless it was just setting the password/public key for the
console-over-ssh, and getting ssh host/user connection details, Which
actually might work ok.
Something like that would do it indeed, i guess.