Bug 1060425

Summary: [RFE] enable shared VNC session
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Markus Stockhausen <mst>
Component: virt-viewerAssignee: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
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Description Markus Stockhausen 2014-02-01 15:31:33 UTC 
Description of problem:

If two administrators need access to the same VNC console of a virtual machine they can do it with the vnc option "shared access" (e.g. TightVNC). virt-viewer currently only opens exclusive sessions so the second login kicks out the first login.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

virt-viewer 0.6.0


Implementation idea:

The first thing to accomplish is a new flag in the .vv file that allows to open a shared or exclusive connection. E.g. SHARED=0/1

After reading that file virt-viewer has to set the shared option for opening the connection depending on that flag. If I read it right that must be somewhere in  virt-viewer-session-vnc.c

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vnc_display_set_shared_flag(self->priv-vnc,sharedFlag);
ret = vnc_display_open_host(self->priv-vnc,...)
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Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2020-09-11 10:52:12 UTC 
https://gitlab.com/virt-viewer/virt-viewer/-/merge_requests/38
Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2021-04-21 14:21:13 UTC 
This is implemented in the 10.0 release