diff --git a/source/adminguide/systemvm.rst b/source/adminguide/systemvm.rst index 43eaeb3b3b..dabd259562 100644 --- a/source/adminguide/systemvm.rst +++ b/source/adminguide/systemvm.rst @@ -157,13 +157,21 @@ to the VNC port made available via the hypervisor for the console of the guest. Both the administrator and end user web UIs offer a console connection. -Clicking a console icon brings up a new window. The AJAX code downloaded +Clicking a console icon brings up a new window. The console viewer into that window refers to the public IP address of a console proxy VM. There is exactly one public IP address allocated per console proxy VM. -The AJAX application connects to this IP. The console proxy then proxies +The viewer application connects to this IP. The console proxy then proxies the connection to the VNC port for the requested VM on the Host hosting the guest. +Since 4.15, noVNC has been integrated into the console proxy and is the +default viewer. It inherently supports multiple keyboard layouts configured +in the guest virtual machine. Additionally, it can scale the display as +well as paste into the console. + +noVNC is set as the default console viewer which be changed via the +"novnc.console.default" global setting, which is set to true by default. + .. note:: The hypervisors will have many ports assigned to VNC usage so that multiple VNC sessions can occur simultaneously.