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Expand Up @@ -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.
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