Remote Connections

Introduction

Instead of working with local VMs, connect to a remote box.

Designers

JakubSteiner

Objectives

• Direct connection to a single box. VNC/RDP/SPICE
• Connecting through a broker. RHEVM

Access available machines on a LAN?

Non Goals

• Boxes is not a tool to manage large pools of VMs, define permissions, clone configs across machines etc..

Constraints

Boxes is not a viewer. Connecting to a remote machine is equivalent to creating a new virtual machine. It creates a personal machine, "my box".

Direct connections are usually linked to knowing tedious technical details about the connection. Connection protocol, compression type, IP address, port number, etc. Non-administrator don't find these details approachable.

Relevant Art

Tentative Design

Direct connections

• Don't bother laying out connection details into forms, it doesn't help much a non-administrator. Stick to URLs:

  • Fast copy & paste

  • Easy route from the Web browser or Email.
• Discover available machines on a LAN, similar to adding printers in the Settings.

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See Also

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