[jira] [Commented] (GUACAMOLE-1641) Add vSphere support to VNC protocol

["Stephen Young (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Stephen Young commented on GUACAMOLE-1641:
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[~mbeynon] This sounds very interesting. Has work on this been stalled, or is progress still being made? With ESXi 6.7 being EOL last October, this is a desirable feature for those of us connecting to VMs using the bundeled VNC server. Not sure I can be of any use, but if I can, I'm happy to help.

> Add vSphere support to VNC protocol
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: GUACAMOLE-1641
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-1641
>             Project: Guacamole
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: guacamole
>            Reporter: Mike Beynon
>            Priority: Minor
>
> vSphere bundles a VNC server into their ESXi hypervisor, and tunnels the VNC protocol over a web socket to their client.  I'm working now to add support to guacd to (1) take a vm object id name, (2) use the vSphere API to establish a session with vCenter and request a webmks ticket, and (3) have guacd connect to the appropriate ESXi server and port to setup the websocket and then pass binary frames containing the VNC protocol.  The new parameters for the guacd protocol will mean there's changes to guacamole-client also for the webapp and the db storage for connection parameters.
> I plan to do this on the open source version.
> It's related to GUACAMOLE-591, except it will not show the entire VM catalog.  Instead my changes will provide the mechanism in guacd, and later work can add the catalog.
> Any suggestions how to proceed?  Things to do or things to avoid doing?
> Should I start with the latest apache or glyptodon source?



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