Introducing a VNC server for Chrome OS development devices.
Junichi Uekawa (上川純一)
Hi fellow Chromium OS developers!
Shaochuan and I made a VNC server during a hackathon last month. Under the hood it expands the `screenshot` utility to get continuous screenshots and have touchscreen / keyboard control over your remote Chromium OS device using libvncserver. The code landed in 13737.0.0.
Here’s a quick rundown of how to use kmsvnc.
(DUT)# kmsvnc
VNC server will start listening on port 5900. Forward the port with SSH from your client, and connect through the port. Example:
(workstation)$ ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 DUT
Then connect using a VNC client, such as VNC Viewer for Google Chrome, to localhost:5900. It will ask you if you want to connect unauthenticated, here we are relying on ssh forwarding.
Known issues:
On UI restart the VNC server will stop updating the screen. kmsvnc needs to be restarted as well.
The screen occasionally turns stale and requires a few more clicks to make it update again.
A minimal documentation is available in README.md.