On 2014-06-02 21:54, Brian Rak wrote:
On 6/2/2014 3:47 PM, shawn wilson wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Nikolay Shopik <shopik@inblock.ru> wrote:
Java only used for mouting images. KVM is transfered via VNC protocol iirc. They're not re-inventing the wheel, but I think KVM is generally some VNC stream embedded in http(s) which VNC clients can't seem to understand (at least, at a glance, I haven't been able to connect to iLo, DRAC, Spider, or Tyan IPMI from outside the Java app). No, at least on SuperMicro it's a hacked up VNC protocol. It's not embedded in HTTP/HTTPS, it just uses HTTP/HTTPS to fetch the Java app.
I say hacked up because it's got a custom auth method, and a whole bunch of undocumented extensions. I looked into implementing support in noVNC for it, but reverse engineering a binary protocol is a bit beyond me.
While there is no spec, there are people who have reversed it: https://github.com/thefloweringash/chicken-aten-ikvm Greets, Jeroen