From f39129eb4fba96f84099b47c5ad1af0df5e2c34a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: davidjumani Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:34:53 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Adding docs for noVNC --- source/adminguide/systemvm.rst | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/adminguide/systemvm.rst b/source/adminguide/systemvm.rst index 4c3da98cfa..7b1ce5d177 100644 --- a/source/adminguide/systemvm.rst +++ b/source/adminguide/systemvm.rst @@ -112,13 +112,21 @@ 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. @@ -593,3 +601,4 @@ in an immediate termination of the command and report back to the operator that +