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-====== Nova RDP Support Configuration====== 
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-Nova currently provides support for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing|VNC]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE_(protocol)|SPICE]] graphical consoles. VNC in particular is the protocol employed natively by most popular hypervisors supported by Nova. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V|Microsoft Hyper-V]] in this context is a remarkable exception, as it employs the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol|Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)]] for graphical console access, based on [[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj712081.aspx|Open Specifications]] and implemented by various open source projects. 
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-[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhBa-IuTQAs|Here]]'s an example video showing an HTML5 RDP console based on [[https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP|FreeRDP]]. 
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-===== Configuring Nova for RDP support ===== 
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-RDP console configuration is quite straightforward. All you need to do is to add the following configuration settings in your Hyper-V compute node's **nova.conf**: 
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-    [rdp] 
-    enabled=True 
-    html5_proxy_base_url=http://10.0.0.1:8000/ 
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-Where the url specified in the **html5_proxy_base_url** setting is provided by the FreeRDP HTML5 proxy as detailed in the next section. 
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-===== Installing and configuring the FreeRDP HTML5 proxy ===== 
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-The FreeRDP HTML5 proxy can be installed on various Linux distributions (currently Ubuntu >= 12.04, RHEL 6.x / CentOS 6.x and Fedora >= 16) or on Microsoft Windows, including Hyper-V Server. 
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-==== Ubuntu 12.04 and above ==== 
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-A shell script is provided to simplify the installation of the application and the dependencies, mostly available in source form only. 
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-    sudo apt-get install -y git 
-    git clone https://github.com/cloudbase/FreeRDP-WebConnect.git 
-    cd FreeRDP-WebConnect     
-    sudo ./setup_all.sh -f -i 
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-At this point the proxy, called **wsgate** can be installed by running: 
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-    sudo make install     
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-==== wsgate configuration ==== 
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-The default configuration file is located here: 
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-    /usr/local/etc/wsgate.ini 
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-Change the following options to match your environment configuration: 
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-    [global] 
-    port = 8000 
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-Note: make sure to open the port in your operating system firewall. 
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-    [openstack] 
-    authurl = http://10.0.0.1:5000/v2.0 
-    username = admin 
-    password = secret 
-    tenantname = admin 
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-    [hyperv] 
-    # Credentials used to connect to the Hyper-V hosts when accessing 
-    # OpenStack instances consoles   
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-    hostusername = Administrator 
-    hostpassword = secret 
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-It is also strongly recommended to encrypt the traffic using HTTPS. Here are the relevant parameters, including a PEM file containing both the certificate and the private key. 
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-    [ssl] 
-    port = 4430 
-    certfile = /usr/local/etc/wsgate/test.pem 
-    certpass = verysecret 
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-HTML, CSS and Javascript files are available at the following location for further customization: 
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-    /usr/local/share/wsgate 
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-==== Running wsgate ==== 
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-wsgate can be executed as a demon with the following instruction: 
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-    wsgate -c /usr/local/etc/wsgate.ini 
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-In case you should prefer to execute wsgate in a shell for debugging purposes, just set: 
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-    [global] 
-    daemon = false 
  
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