Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice project is now open

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/13/2009 01:46 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Dan Berrange and I have been talking about being able to move VNC 
> server into a central process such that all of the VMs can have a 
> single VNC port that can be connected to.  This greatly simplifies the 
> firewalling logic that an administrator has to deal with.   That's a 
> problem I've already had to deal with for our management tools.  We 
> use a private network for management and we bridge the VNC traffic 
> into the customers network so they can see the VGA session.  But since 
> that traffic can be a large range of ports and we have to tunnel the 
> traffic through a central server to get into the customer network, 
> it's very difficult to setup without opening up a mess of ports.  I 
> think we're currently opening a few thousand just for VNC.

Seems to me the best way to handle this is to run an accept() in a 
server and hand the resulting fd to the vnc server in qemu using ... 
wait for it ... SCM_RIGHTS.

I'm just happy every time someone lobs a question into the air that can 
be answered using SCM_RIGHTS.

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