[openstack-dev] [Ironic] There is a function to display the VGA emulation screen of BMC in the baremetal node on the Horizon?

Lucas Alvares Gomes lucasagomes at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 08:48:52 UTC 2015


Hi,

> We are investigating how to display on the Horizon a VGA
> emulation screen of BMC in the bare metal node that has been
> deployed by Ironic.
> If it was already implemented, I thought that the connection
> information of a VNC or SPICE server (converted if necessary)
> for a VGA emulation screen of BMC is returned as the stdout of
> the "nova get-*-console".
> However, we were investigating how to configure Ironic and so
> on, but we could not find a way to do so.
> I tried to search roughly the implementation of such a process
> in the source code of Ironic, but it was not found.
>
> The current Ironic, I think such features are not implemented.
> However, is this correct?
>

A couple of drivers in Ironic supports web console (shellinabox), you
can take a look docs to see how to enable and use it:
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/deploy/install-guide.html#configure-node-web-console

Hope that helps,
Lucas



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