Thanks for the replies. I’ll have a look at using libwebsockets. Yes, ‘stalled’ was a poor choice of words :)
- Stephen > On Apr 27, 2023, at 5:12 PM, Nick Couchman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
