> -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: 28 May 2013 8:55 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Update on Hyper-V plugin work > > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 04:38:23PM +0000, Donal Lafferty wrote: > > Hi Chip, > > > > Thanks for clarifying the IP info required. I'll take a closer look ASAP. > > Awesome, thanks! > > > Citrix have provided some effort for a suitable console proxy, which > > needs to be integrated into the System VM. (Volunteers?) > > Where is this effort available (so that folks know what it means to do the > integration)? [Donal Lafferty] ATM there is code for an RDP console proxy at https://github.com/lafferty/cshv3/tree/master/plugins/hypervisors/hyperv/rdpclient
This source is assigned to ASF; however, there remain two problems. First, RDP support may not be complete. AFAIK, Hyper-V exposes the virtual frame buffer of each VM through a single RDP server on port 2179. The "Session Selection Extension" is used to select which VM console to transmit to a connection [1][2][3]. I'm not sure that this package includes the necessary extension. Second, I've not attempted to add a package created from this source to the system VM, and I'm not clear how the management console would start it. [1] http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/os_specifications/thread/9c657965-4c85-4457-aea6-235d6b8be28b for a discussion of its implementation [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc242359.aspx for the technical specification of RDP's "Session Selection Extension" (aka MSRDP-EPS) [3] https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/865 for discussion indicating FreeRDP have an example of the necessary message exchange. > > -chip
