[virt-tools-list] [RFC PATCH] add shh option to VM context menu

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue Sep 13 14:22:19 UTC 2011


On 09/13/2011 08:02 AM, Gerhard Stenzel wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 13:34 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> I can understand how this is convenient in some cases but I don't
>> think
>> this is something we want to add to the UI: fundamentally I don't like
>> the idea of having virt-manager launch another terminal, we should be
>> a self contained app.
> 
> Fine with me .. I can always build my own version of virt-manager.
> 
> One of my motivations was the need to copy and paste text from the host
> to the guest and using ssh seemed the simplest for me .. maybe there is
> another way to achieve this?
> 

SPICE graphics with a spice channel device attached to the guest should
allow this. Not sure if anything else is required (like an agent in the
guest?)

- Cole




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