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From: Donal Lafferty <donal.lafferty@citrix.com>
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Subject: RE: Update on Hyper-V plugin work
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.childers@sungard.com]
> Sent: 28 May 2013 8:55 PM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Update on Hyper-V plugin work
>=20
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 04:38:23PM +0000, Donal Lafferty wrote:
> >  Hi Chip,
> >
> > Thanks for clarifying the IP info required.  I'll take a closer look AS=
AP.
>=20
> Awesome, thanks!
>=20
> > Citrix have provided some effort for a suitable console proxy, which
> > needs to be integrated into the System VM.  (Volunteers?)
>=20
> Where is this effort available (so that folks know what it means to do th=
e
> integration)?
[Donal Lafferty]=20
ATM there is code for an RDP console proxy at https://github.com/lafferty/c=
shv3/tree/master/plugins/hypervisors/hyperv/rdpclient

This source is assigned to ASF; however, there remain two problems.

First, RDP support may not be complete.  AFAIK, Hyper-V exposes the virtual=
 frame buffer of each VM through a single RDP server on port 2179.  The "Se=
ssion Selection Extension" is used to select which VM console to transmit t=
o a connection [1][2][3].  I'm not sure that this package includes the nece=
ssary extension.

Second, I've not attempted to add a package created from this source to the=
 system VM, and I'm not clear how the management console would start it.

[1] http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/os_specifications/thread/=
9c657965-4c85-4457-aea6-235d6b8be28b for a discussion of its implementation
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc242359.aspx for the technical=
 specification of RDP's "Session Selection Extension" (aka MSRDP-EPS)
[3] https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/865 for discussion indicating=
 FreeRDP have an example of the necessary message exchange.

>=20
> -chip