openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_compute-configure-spice.xml
Summer Long d6b4bb8176 Moved console access and ServiceGroup config to Cloud Admin
Moved console access and ServiceGroup HowTo info from the CRG
to the CAG. Added memcache driver to ServiceGroup section. Brief
edits on all.

Partial-Bug: #1290687

Change-Id: I43e895279d5650c0489154c31ce03096ab9e61cc
2014-04-05 18:59:04 +10:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
xml:id="spice-console">
<title>SPICE console</title>
<para>OpenStack Compute supports VNC consoles to guests. The VNC
protocol is fairly limited, lacking support for multiple monitors,
bi-directional audio, reliable cut-and-paste, video streaming and
more. SPICE is a new protocol that aims to address the limitations
in VNC and provide good remote desktop support.</para>
<para>SPICE support in OpenStack Compute shares a similar
architecture to the VNC implementation. The OpenStack dashboard
uses a SPICE-HTML5 widget in its console tab that communicates to
the <systemitem class="service">nova-spicehtml5proxy</systemitem>
service by using SPICE-over-websockets. The <systemitem
class="service">nova-spicehtml5proxy</systemitem> service
communicates directly with the hypervisor process by using SPICE.</para>
<para>VNC must be explicitly disabled to get access to the SPICE console.
Set the <option>vnc_enabled</option> option to <literal>False</literal> in
the <literal>[DEFAULT]</literal> section to disable the VNC console.</para>
<para>Use the following options to configure SPICE as the console for OpenStack Compute:</para>
<xi:include href="../common/tables/nova-spice.xml"/>
</section>