On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 6:02 PM Michael Jumper <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
I've done some work recently on support for tunneling the various protocols over SSH, and, assuming libwebsockets can open a standard UNIX socket, this should work. Also, it's hard to categorize this issue as "stalled" - it was entered, but hasn't really had any serious activity at all, and also isn't that old :-). -Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
