Accessing an Instance through Console

22 Apr 2017

So I was worked for some Openstack which is branded as FusionSphere Openstack 6.0. It’s an Openstack that made by Huawei. On this environment Openstack version is Juno (Nova version 2014.2). My objective on this post is accessing an instance via console. To get to console of an instance in openstack, it will use VNC. Actually there are 3 methods commonly used in Openstack:

novnc: An in-browser VNC client implemented using HTML5 Canvas and WebSockets
spice: A complete in-browser client solution for interaction with virtualized instances
xvpvnc: A Java client offering console access to an instance

In FusionSphere Openstack 6.0. The default VNC console is novnc.

To access an instance through a remote console, run the following command:

nova get-vnc-console $vm-id novnc

The command returns a URL from which you can access your instance:

$ nova get-vnc-console 95b9c0bf-22d2-43cb-b241-4a964f988f57 novnc
+-------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
| Type  | Url                                                                                                      | 
+-------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
| novnc | https://nova-novncproxy.domain.com:8002/vnc_auto.html?token=52b7e33a-1688-49da-b63f-80021fc8dd31&lang=EN | 
+-------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 