Get VNC Console Stream via REST API
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I recently looked into how to have a more secure front-facing management interface for VMs, since I don't think exposing Xen Orchestra to the internet is a good idea. It should probably be fine, I guess, but the thought of allowing access to such a critical part of my infrastructure makes me uneasy.
The current state of the REST API seems to be sufficient for building my own front, except for one important missing feature. Getting access to the VNC stream for a VM console.
Are there any plans on adding this in the near future? As far as I can see, this should be rather straightforward, since the endpoint already exists in Xen Orchestra, but not using the REST API with token authentication:
/api/consoles/<uuid>.As an alternative to this, the xcp-ng host itself exposes the
/console?uuid=<uuid>https endpoint, but I have been unable to test this properly, since this requires the root user of the host to authenticate via password, which can't be done with any normal vnc client. I found a 5 year old [reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/XenServer/comments/cu61we/xcpng_vnc_stream/ talking about this, which suggests that token authentication is possible. However, I wasn't able to find any documentation supporting this (xcp-ng or xen server). Either way, having this in the Xen Orchestra REST API would be preferable. -
Ping @julien-f
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@olivierlambert @julien-f Any update on this?
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@Morpheus0x Your feature request has been noted and will be put in the backlog.
It appears to be trivial so it should we'll try to do it soon but I cannot tell you when.
