[vbox-dev] vrde with vnc

[Christophe Devriese]

Thanks !

This was based on the contributions of the FreeBSD team, so a big thanks to
them too. And of course the libvncserver made all this possible in the
first place.

Christophe

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Klaus Espenlaub
<klaus.espenlaub at oracle.com>wrote:

> On 08.11.2011 22:22, Christophe Devriese wrote:
>
>> I tried getting this integrated. It's not working. But here's something
>> you can build as an extpack, and it contains docs. If anybody really
>> knows how to move forward with this (maybe have an "unofficial extpacks"
>> ftp location or something, where oracle doesn't claim ownership or
>> quality or anything ???)
>>
>
> It's in the VBox tree now... finally found some time. A few words of
> documentation are in the manual, too.
>
> I hope that the deb/rpm package build logic is now also working, this was
> quite a bit of work to figure out how it should be done properly. For those
> builds the VNC "extpack" is included in the normal package, as anything
> else makes little sense.
>
>
>  Additionally, it would be *great* to have a way to get custom QT
>> interfaces and configuration file formats into extpacks. There was some
>> work on this but, and it was implemented for the UDPTunnel stuff, but ...
>>
>
> This shouldn't need custom hacking - the listen address/port works, and
> the VNCPassword stuff shouldn't be too hard either, if we get to adding
> generic VRDE property editing support in the GUI.
>
> Of course a few changes are necessary, to get over the "RDP" centric
> labels ;)
>
>
>  Anyway, here's the file. It shows how to build and register the extpack,
>> and how to get the extpack to operate (I'm afraid you will be using
>> python commands to enable this for a specific VM instance).
>>
>> Also, I'm having trouble finding the time to work on this, and I don't
>> really have a place to put this online. If anybody's willing to do
>> something like this ? I'd rather not put it on github or something like
>> that, as it'll just get fragmented and we'll end up with 10 different
>> versions, all with weird bugs.
>>
>
> I always planned to give it a home in the VBox source tree. No promises if
> we'll make binaries available or if we leave this to others. The most
> likely variant is the latter.
>
>
>  Anyway, let me know what you think. Good luck with it.
>>
>
> The contribution was a great starting point. Needed some cleanup, and I
> couldn't resist implementing some optional features, just to illustrate
> what's possible.
>
> Oh, and I had a go at the keyboard handling (Caps/Scroll/Num Lock not
> handled, AltGr not handled, and keypad support was a commented out theory).
> It's of course still unusable (or at least bad) on non-US keyboards,
> because in general reverse mapping from X keysyms to scancodes is
> impossible. For simple keyboard layouts it's doable, but even there
> knowledge of the keyboard map is required, and this isn't there at all.
>
> Thank you very much for the effort you all put into this, and if you (or
> anyone else) has improvements, just let us know. Now that the base code is
> in the tree it's a lot easier to integrate improvements.
>
> Klaus
>
>
>> Christophe
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Klaus Espenlaub
>> <klaus.espenlaub at oracle.com <mailto:klaus.espenlaub@**oracle.com<klaus.espenlaub at oracle.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 05.11.2011 00:45, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>>
>>        On Friday, November 04, 2011 06:24:17 PM Perry Halbert wrote:
>>
>>            I guess I am confused.  You can compile VBox with the VNC
>>            support
>>            (VBOX_WITH_VNC :=1) already.
>>            Not sure about Windows though.  Is that what this is about?
>>
>>            On 11/04/2011 05:41 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>>
>>                Howard Su was talking about VNC and VRDE back in February.
>>
>>                https://www.virtualbox.org/__**pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-__*
>> *February/003615.html<https://www.virtualbox.org/__pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-__February/003615.html>
>>
>>                <https://www.virtualbox.org/**pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-**
>> February/003615.html<https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-February/003615.html>
>> >
>>
>>                Has there been any more work done with this?
>>
>>
>>    This hasn't been fully integrated yet. I agree that this would
>>    improve the VNC user experience significantly.
>>
>>        Hi Perry.
>>
>>        Being able to control it via the API is the main thing I am
>>        looking for.
>>
>>
>>    There is a chance of having this in 4.1, if an engineer finds enough
>>    time and the change including the cleanup is low risk. In any case,
>>    it will first go into trunk.
>>
>>    Klaus
>>
>>
>>        thanks,
>>
>>        Geoff
>>
>>
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