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We're trying to virtualize desktops for remote workers.  Guests will be Windows.  Remote connection method will be GoToMyPC.  As such, I need the OS to believe either 1) it has 2 1920 x 1080 monitors, or 2) it has a single 3840 x 1080 monitor.  Neither of which have I found a way to do in VNC.

Thank you,

Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA 
Vice President – Information Technology 
Perform Air International Inc.
DHilsbos at PerformAir.com 
www.PerformAir.com

From: Laurent Dumont [mailto:laurentfdumont at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 12:39 PM
To: Dominic Hilsbos
Cc: stephenfin at redhat.com; openstack-discuss
Subject: Re: [ops][nova][spice][victoria] Switch from VNC to SPICE

Are you using the Openstack console itself? You might have more flexibility with a dedicated VNC server inside the VM and connect directly to it. So you would not be tied to the Openstack VNC support which I dont think was ever designed for graphical usage. More of a "it's 2AM, server is crashed and I need a way in!".

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 1:58 PM <DHilsbos at performair.com> wrote:
Stephen;

Thank you for the information.

What's the replacement?  Is VNC getting improvements to allow higher resolutions, and multi-monitor, in the guest?

We've already decided to transition our OpenStack cluster away from CentOS, as RDO doesn't package some of the OpenStack projects we'd like to use, and RedHat has lost our trust.

Thank you,

Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA 
Vice President – Information Technology 
Perform Air International Inc.
DHilsbos at PerformAir.com 
www.PerformAir.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Finucane [mailto:stephenfin at redhat.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 10:33 AM
To: Dominic Hilsbos; openstack-discuss at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [ops][nova][spice][victoria] Switch from VNC to SPICE

On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 16:53 +0000, DHilsbos at performair.com wrote:
> All;
> 
> We have a Victoria cluster, and I'd like to switch from VNC to SPICE.  Cluster is installed with packages (RDO), and configured manually.
> 
> I have located https://docs.openstack.org/nova/victoria/admin/remote-console-access.html, but this doesn't tell me which services need to be installed on which servers.
> 
> Looking at packages, I'm fairly certain nova-spicehtml5proxy (openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy on CentOS 8) needs to be installed where the nova-novncproxy is currently.
> 
> I also suspect that qemu-kvm-ui-spice needs to be installed on the nova-compute nodes.  Is spice-server needed on the nova-compute nodes?

Not an answer, but I'd be very careful about building solutions based on SPICE.
It has been deprecated in RHEL 8.3 and recent versions of Fedora and is slated
for removal in RHEL 9, as this bug [1] points out. It is also receives very
little attention in nova as some deployments tooling (such as Red Hat OSP) has
not supported it for some time. There's a non-zero chance support for this
console type will be dropped entirely in some future release.

Stephen

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1946938

> Thank you,
> 
> Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA 
> Vice President - Information Technology 
> Perform Air International Inc.
> DHilsbos at PerformAir.com 
> www.PerformAir.com
> 
> 
>