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RE: [Xen-API] Accessing XCP console

To: 'Ahmed Kamal' <email.ahmedkamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephen Spector <stephen.spector@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-API] Accessing XCP console
From: Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:03:01 +0000
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Hi,

>  Thanks for the work. I could finally get the console working, although the 
> documentation was really inaccurate (not mentioning &session_id in the http 
> connect) plus the patch for xvp ... etc. Anyway, I've written what I think is 
> a very good tutorial for accessing the console at
>
> http://foss-boss.blogspot.com/2010/01/taming-xen-cloud-platform-consoles.html
>
> If you want to link or put that info in the wiki, please feel free

I'm glad you managed to get it to work -- sorry the docs are inaccurate :(

Perhaps one way we could make it easier would be to:
* register an HTTP GET handler on the /console URL
* do basic auth to get a username/password
* return a simple HTML page referencing the java VNC console viewer.

Cheers,
Dave

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