<html><body>Similar request - different reason.<br />Further to Flavio's request, it'd be nice if there was an easy OOTB way to access servers from Android devices.<br /><br />It'd be really cool if I could fully admin servers from my Android tablet. Currently that requires a direct connection to the VM (SSH/VNC/RDP) as Java isn't fully implemented in Android. That's fine for most things, but it needs to be configured in the guest prior. And it also means that installing and configuring a new VM from scratch is not possible (unless I've missed something).<br /><br />It'd be awesome if I could do everything I can do from a PC, from my tablet!<br /><br />Regards,<br />Jeremy<br /><blockquote>----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Flavio Stanchina" <flavio.stanchina@ies.it></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div><pve-user@pve.proxmox.com><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:33:10 +0100<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>[PVE-User] Doing without the Java console<br /><br /><br />
I'd like to know how the Proxmox VE developers feel about making it<br />
possible to work with PVE without the Java VNC console. I'll spare you all<br />
the technical and ethical reasons why I would prefer to get rid of Java on<br />
my machines, but there are three that I just can't bear:<br />
1) Java is not Free Software, no matter what they say, so it's the only<br />
non-free component in an otherwise fully free infrastructure (and please<br />
don't mention OpenJDK and IcedTea, it just doesn't work well enough to<br />
replace the Sun^WOracle JRE).<br />
2) the Java plugin has a history of being unsafe, so I'd rather just get<br />
rid of it.<br />
3) the Oracle lawsuit against Google.<br /><br />
Moreover, the PVE console eats some keys on PVE 2.0, for example the TAB<br />
key. I hope this can be fixed, but if it can't it's one more reason to have<br />
another option.<br /><br />
I see a few alternatives which would be relatively easy to do, listed in<br />
order of preference:<br />
* add an option to open the VNC console of a VM (with proper authorization<br />
of course) on a specified port; I've done this with a few entries in<br />
/etc/inetd.conf on PVE 1.x, as suggested in a forum post, but IIRC it<br />
doesn't work with PVE 2.0 (I think I tried to debug why but didn't get to<br />
the bottom of it).<br />
* enable Spice; I tried building a qemu-kvm package with Spice enabled,<br />
then added the proper options to the VM config and it works, but in a<br />
production environment I'd want support out of the box.<br />
* use the gtk-vnc plugin where available; not mature, not available<br />
everywhere, but it works and making it better is not a hard problem.<br /><br />
Of course I want ALL OF THEM! :)<br /><br />
-- <br />
Flavio Stanchina<br />
Informatica e Servizi<br />
Trento - Italy<br /><br />
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.<br />
-- Henry Spencer<br />
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