[pve-devel] Proxmox compatible Android client (Opaque) available for beta testing

[Stefan Priebe]

Am 11.12.2013 19:43, schrieb Dietmar Maurer:
>>> I do not have support for the Proxmox API at all (for the moment).
>> So how do you want to get the vv file (confused)?
>>
>> I thought that Proxmox has a web portal where people login and can click to
>> obtain a console.vv file for their VM(s). I guess I was wrong.
>
> Sure, we have a web portal where you can download the virt-viewer configuration
> values. But those values includes tickets for proxy access with very limited
> lifetime (30 seconds), so you cannot simply save the file and start the connection
> later, because tickets expires (for security reasons).
>
>>>   All I do is
>>> register support for .vv files with the Android OS. Is there no way to obtain a
>>> console.vv file through a web portal on Proxmox anymore?
>> No, I removed that because it is easy to create such files on the client. Any web
>> client can generate such file using a data url (as shown in my code).
>>
>> My app is not a web client. It is composed of spice-gtk, libgovirt, a bunch of
>> supporting libraries, and a UI for Android written in Java.
>>
>> What exactly is the problem? Don't you have a JSON framework to parse
>> the JSON result? If so, would it help if I re-add the 'spiceconfig' format,
>> so that you can do
>>
>> POST /api2/spiceconfig/....
>>
>> But you still have to login to the API and pass the CSRF token.
>>
>> Then I'd have to add support for your API which I wasn't planning to. Is there a
>> client library that is portable to Android I can use for the purpose? If not, support
>> for the API may be some time away!
>
> I plan to add such extension to remote-viewer (spice-gtk), using a special URL schema,
> so that you can start remote-viewer like:
>
> # remote-viewer pve://hostname/vm/100
>
> Would it help if I write that code in C using libcurl?
>

Another problem is that the ExtJS GUI is not really usable under IPhone 
/ Android at least with a few hundret VMs.

I think a special Web Portal is needed in general für such a purpose.

Stefan