pve-desktop-manager

A small desktop GUI app to manage a Proxmox VE server. Written in perl.

Dependencies

• Config
• Config::IniFiles
• Data::Dumper
• DateTime
• File::Temp
• JSON
• PVE::APIClient::LWP
• Tk
• Tk::Table

Features

• Queries and generates list for selecting a different authentication realm during login.
• Lists all VMs the user has access to, their current run status, and what node they are running on (if applicable).
• Can power on / off / force shutdown / force reset VMs.
• Can open SPICE consoles for use via remote-viewer. (Generates the needed console.vv file on the fly.)

Usage

To use it just run the perl script. You'll be presented with a login window.

Known issues

• VNC console types don't work.

  • This is due to the Proxmox VE api not allowing remote-viewer to use the generated ticket (from the /api2/json/node/NODEID/qemu/VMID/vncproxy endpoint) as the password for the VNC connection.

• Containers are not currently supported.

• Linux is the only supported OS for autolaunching remote-viewer. (The location of the generated console.vv file will be displayed to the user in this case. Along with a message to open it manually.)

  • Because I'm lazy. Patches welcome!

• Holy stars Batman! That's some badly written Perl code!

  • It's my first attempt at writing code in Perl. See also the "damage" comments in the code itself. (Which should be removed...)

Acknowledgements

• Proxmox (for making their VE server and endpoint API avaiable to the public.)