<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hi,</div><div>The VC returns consoled output in a PNG format. In order for OpenStack to display this it will need to be converted to a text format (which may be a very non trivial task).</div><div>To be honest I am not really sure how the console output for other drivers works when the running VM is say for example a windows VM. I am not sure what is displayed (I have yet to check this out).</div><div>Thanks</div><div>Gary</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Rajshree Thorat <<a href="mailto:rajshree.thorat@gslab.com">rajshree.thorat@gslab.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, November 22, 2013 1:56 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Administrator <<a href="mailto:gkotton@vmware.com">gkotton@vmware.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:heut2008@gmail.com">heut2008@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:heut2008@gmail.com">heut2008@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:openstack@ask.openstack.org">openstack@ask.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack@ask.openstack.org">openstack@ask.openstack.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Openstack] Unable to see console using VNC on ESX hypervisor<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank you for your quick response.<br><br>
The console output is not supported in Grizzly and Havana with ESX driver but if I want to do my own changes to support it, how I can go ahead?<br><br>
Regards,<br>
Rajshree <br><br>
On 11/21/2013 9:07 PM, Gary Kotton wrote:<br></div><blockquote cite="mid:CEB3F50D.24029%25gkotton@vmware.com" type="cite"><div>Hi,</div><div>Yes, Yaguang you are correct. The console output is not supported. In Havana we added a log message to indicate that it is not support. There are changes proposed in Icehosue to say that this is not supported.</div><div>Thanks</div><div>Gary </div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt;
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BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Yaguang Tang <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:heut2008@gmail.com">heut2008@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:heut2008@gmail.com">heut2008@gmail.com</a>" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:heut2008@gmail.com">heut2008@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, November 21, 2013 5:12 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Rajshree Thorat <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rajshree.thorat@gslab.com">rajshree.thorat@gslab.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>"<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:openstack@ask.openstack.org">openstack@ask.openstack.org</a>" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:openstack@ask.openstack.org">openstack@ask.openstack.org</a>>, "<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a>"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Openstack] Unable to see console using VNC on ESX hypervisor<br></div><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr"><br>
2013$BG/(B11$B7n(B21$BF|(B $B2<8a(B10:02$BP2(B "Yaguang Tang" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:heut2008@gmail.com">heut2008@gmail.com</a>> $B<LF;!'(B<br>
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> Grizzly openstack doesn't support vnc console with ESX driver.</p><p dir="ltr">sorry$B!$(B i mean vnc console log is not supported. <br>
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> 2013$BG/(B11$B7n(B21$BF|(B $B2<8a(B9:43$BP2(B "Rajshree Thorat" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rajshree.thorat@gslab.com">rajshree.thorat@gslab.com</a>> $B<LF;!'(B<br>
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>> Hi All,<br>
>><br>
>> I have configured OpenStack Grizzly to control ESX hypervisor. I can successfully launch instances but unable to see its console using VNC.<br>
>><br>
>> Following is my configuration.<br>
>><br>
>> ***Compute node :<br>
>><br>
>> nova.conf for vnc:<br>
>><br>
>> vnc_enabled = true<br>
>> novncproxy_base_url=<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://public_ip_of_controller:6080/vnc_auto.html&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=eH0pxTUZo8NPZyF6hgoMQu%2BfDtysg45MkPhCZFxPEq8%3D%0A&m=e%2BJeoge0j7b5ZWkd83QV3NqqCIjj7p%2BB4RP1JtYo7Lw%3D%0A&s=eb8057f245e92c7ab335fa466e326e95ccc8fdb0fb904f2c189453769bef9940">http://public_ip_of_controller:6080/vnc_auto.html</a><br>
>> novncproxy_port=6080<br>
>> vncserver_proxyclient_address=management_ip_of_compute<br>
>> vncserver_listen=0.0.0.0<br>
>><br>
>> ***Controller node:<br>
>><br>
>> nova.conf for vnc:<br>
>><br>
>> novncproxy_base_url=<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://public_ip_of_controller:6080/vnc_auto.html&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=eH0pxTUZo8NPZyF6hgoMQu%2BfDtysg45MkPhCZFxPEq8%3D%0A&m=e%2BJeoge0j7b5ZWkd83QV3NqqCIjj7p%2BB4RP1JtYo7Lw%3D%0A&s=eb8057f245e92c7ab335fa466e326e95ccc8fdb0fb904f2c189453769bef9940">http://public_ip_of_controller:6080/vnc_auto.html</a><br>
>> novncproxy_port=6080<br>
>> vncserver_proxyclient_address=management_ip_of_controller<br>
>> vncserver_listen=0.0.0.0<br>
>><br>
>> root@openstk2:~# tail /var/log/nova/nova-consoleauth.log<br>
>> 2013-11-21 18:40:35.228 7570 AUDIT nova.service [-] Starting consoleauth node (version 2013.1.3)<br>
>> 2013-11-21 18:40:35.395 INFO nova.openstack.common.rpc.common [req-179d456d-f306-426f-b65e-242362758f73 None None] Connected to AMQP server on controller_ip:5672<br>
>> 2013-11-21 18:42:34.012 AUDIT nova.consoleauth.manager [req-ebc33f34-f57b-492b-8429-39eb3240e5d7 a8f0e9af6e6b4d08b1729acae0510d54 db63e4a448fc426086562638726f9081] Received Token: 1bcb7408-5c59-466d-a84d-528481af3c37, {'instance_uuid': u'969e49b0-af3f-45bd-8618-1320ba337962',
'internal_access_path': None, 'last_activity_at': 1385039554.012067, 'console_type': u'novnc', 'host': u'ESX_host_IP', 'token': u'1bcb7408-5c59-466d-a84d-528481af3c37', 'port': 6031})<br>
>> 2013-11-21 18:42:34.015 INFO nova.openstack.common.rpc.common [req-ebc33f34-f57b-492b-8429-39eb3240e5d7 a8f0e9af6e6b4d08b1729acae0510d54 db63e4a448fc426086562638726f9081] Connected to AMQP server on controller_ip:5672<br>
>> 2013-11-21 18:42:34.283 AUDIT nova.consoleauth.manager [req-518ed47e-5d68-491d-8c57-16952744a2d8 None None] Checking Token: 1bcb7408-5c59-466d-a84d-528481af3c37, True)<br>
>> 2013-11-21 18:42:35.710 AUDIT nova.consoleauth.manager [req-2d65d8ac-c003-4f4d-9014-9e8995794ad6 None None] Checking Token: 1bcb7408-5c59-466d-a84d-528481af3c37, True)<br>
>><br>
>> With same configuration I can connect to vm's console on KVM setup. Is there any other setting to access console for ESX hypervisor?<br>
>><br>
>> Any help would be highly appreciated.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks in advance,<br>
>><br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> Rajshree<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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