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Adding docs for noVNC (apache#156)
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source/adminguide/systemvm.rst

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@@ -157,13 +157,21 @@ to the VNC port made available via the hypervisor for the console of the
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guest. Both the administrator and end user web UIs offer a console
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connection.
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Clicking a console icon brings up a new window. The AJAX code downloaded
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Clicking a console icon brings up a new window. The console viewer
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into that window refers to the public IP address of a console proxy VM.
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There is exactly one public IP address allocated per console proxy VM.
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The AJAX application connects to this IP. The console proxy then proxies
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The viewer application connects to this IP. The console proxy then proxies
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the connection to the VNC port for the requested VM on the Host hosting
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the guest.
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Since 4.15, noVNC has been integrated into the console proxy and is the
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default viewer. It inherently supports multiple keyboard layouts configured
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in the guest virtual machine. Additionally, it can scale the display as
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well as paste into the console.
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noVNC is set as the default console viewer which be changed via the
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"novnc.console.default" global setting, which is set to true by default.
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.. note::
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The hypervisors will have many ports assigned to VNC usage so that
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multiple VNC sessions can occur simultaneously.

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