On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 2:55 PM Stephen Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > In ESXi 7.0, VMWare has removed TCP access to the bundled VNC server built > into their ESXi hypervisor. Instead the VNC protocol is tunneled over a > websocket. Are there any plans to support VNC over websockets to facilitate > connections in cases like this? I noticed that there was interest in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-1641 but that seems > stalled. > Does anyone have any advice or experience connecting guacd to the ESXi > bundled VNC server over websockets? I wondered if using a TCP to websocket > proxy/bridge like unwebsockify would be possible. > libwebsockets is already used within guacamole-server for accessing Kubernetes. The same could probably be done as an alternative backend connection mode for VNC, though I'm not sure whether libvncclient has the necessary support for plugging in arbitrary transports. - Mike
