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How is this innovation? Am I missing something?

Graphical consoles have existed for just about every other hypervisor since... well, I've been virtualizing since ESX 3.5 days and even it had a graphical guest console.

(Title and link have been changed - original was "Linode Really Innovates")

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We use twisted-vncauthproxy[1] to open a noVNC console from the UI to speak with the VNC port that each KVM is running on. Before that we used a Java applet with a similar vnc proxy software.

[1]https://code.osuosl.org/projects/twisted-vncauthproxy

Good point. I guess because it's in-browser? Would somebody who has tried it report on responsiveness and whether it's HTML5 or Flash?

Even in-browser consoles have been done for a long time. At least Digital Ocean and Ubiquity Hosting have... how else do you fix a broken firewall rule that blocks SSH or something?

Linode has had a textmode in-browser console for quite some time (LISH). This post is introducing GLISH:

> It's similar to Lish, except instead of connecting to your Linode's serial port and being text, Glish connects to your Linode's graphics port and displays, you guessed it, raster graphics.

Oh yea, I mean Linode's had the out-of-band in-browser console since at least 2009 when I first became a customer. Are DO and Ubiquity's consoles graphical, too? If that's the case then I agree this is catching up, not innovation.

Ubiquity's did, although I never had a reason to run a GUI on any of my DO instances -- however I don't see why they wouldn't -- all these "graphical" consoles just use VNC to project the GUI into the browser.

I suspect there hasn't been much demand for Linode to integrate a full graphical console, but it's been on their checklist for some time and are now getting around to it. Could be a sign of polishing up the platform, which I'm sure is good for all Linode users in general.

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