On Jun 22, 2012, at 9:29 AM, David Nalley wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> On 06/22/2012 03:09 PM, LAMBERT Thomas wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> i would like to add a button in the VM tab, to open a SSH console into the >>> selected VM. I don't really know where to begin, could someone give me a >>> hint or advice about this? >> >> >> Would you like to open a in-browser SSH console? That would be kind of hard. >> >> You could build this into the UI and place a link like: >> "ssh://<ip-of-instance>" >> >> But you would have to register the handle "ssh://" to a binary which then >> gets executed on the client, but that's out of your scope. >> >> Wido >> >> >>> Thanks, have a nice weekend! >>> >>> Regards, >>> Thomas >>> >>> >> > > Not to mention - what if you don't have a route to the VM's network - > and I am not sure there is a deterministic way for the management > server to know if the client can connect to the VM - and even if it > did - what interface would you push it to (think multi-nics, guest vs. > public network, etc...)
This seems like the type of thing that would benefit from a plugin framework - if there was a hook for the instance detail tab (or maybe a tab hook) where people could add in custom bits like ssh buttons, more detailed status information, usage graphs… That would provide a solution to this type of thing, and also we could have a "plugin gallery" or similar on the site where people could share their plugins that might be useful to others… John
