No view is registered with id: remoteHosts

[andrius]

Good evening,

Tried extension with both code and vscodium and receive following error: No view is registered with id: remoteHosts

I wanted to use it with tailscale, here is my settings.json:

{
    "remote.OSS.hosts": [
        {
            "type": "manual",
            "name": "tailscale",
            "host": "100.200.300.400",
            "port": 55155,
            "folders": [
                {
                    "name": "Development",
                    "path": "/home/user/Development",
                },
            ],
        }
    ],
}

P.S.

Updated your scripts:

This one to download latest vscodium server:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -uexo pipefail

VSCODIUM_DIR="${HOME}/.vscodium-server"
RELEASE_URL="$(curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}' 'https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/latest')"
RELEASE="${RELEASE_URL##*/}"
PACKAGE="vscodium-reh-linux-x64-${RELEASE}.tar.gz"
DOWNLOAD_URL="https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/${RELEASE}/${PACKAGE}"

mkdir -p "${VSCODIUM_DIR}"
pushd "${VSCODIUM_DIR}"
curl -Ls -o "${VSCODIUM_DIR}/${PACKAGE}" "${DOWNLOAD_URL}"
COMMIT_ID=$(tar -xf "${VSCODIUM_DIR}/${PACKAGE}" ./product.json -O | jq ".commit" -r)
BIN_DIR="${VSCODIUM_DIR}/${COMMIT_ID}"
mkdir -p "${BIN_DIR}"
pushd "${BIN_DIR}"
tar -xf "${VSCODIUM_DIR}/${PACKAGE}"
popd
ln -sf "${BIN_DIR}" "${VSCODIUM_DIR}/current"
rm "${VSCODIUM_DIR}/${PACKAGE}"
popd

and this one to start it:

export CONNECTION_TOKEN="FooBar"

"${HOME}/.vscodium-server/current/bin/codium-server" \
  --host="$(tailscale status | grep ' ak ' | awk '{print $1}')" \
  --port=55155 \
  --telemetry-level off \
  --connection-token "${CONNECTION_TOKEN}"

[xaberus]

This usually happens, when vscodium did not enable the necessary API proposals. You have to ensure that your effective argv.json contains:

    "enable-proposed-api": [
        ...,
        "xaberus.remote-oss",
        ...,
    ]

I will try to update the README on the weekend along the lines of the open-remote-ssh extension...

[GitMensch]

The open-remote-ssh extension is now enabled by default in vscodium. Compared to this extension it handles the connection including downloading the server for the user (similar to the proprietary extension).

I'm not sure but someone should be so bold to ask, so...
Is there a reason to keep this extension or should it be deprecated in favor of open-remote-ssh (if this happens it would be very cool if you could contribute there, of course)?

[xaberus]

@GitMensch Initially, I wrote this extension as a proof-of-concept so others could use is as an inspiration and write a proper SSH extension, as @jeanp413 eventually did (though, I think he developed his extension independently). However, over time I became convinced that this might not be actually necessary. The open-remote-ssh extension is SSH centered, while this extension can in theory work over any transport. While SSH is my dominant use-case I sometimes connect through other channels (i.e. Docker containers, etc.). Besides, this extension on purpose puts the responsibility of installing the server and ensuring that it is secure on the user, as this might be necessary in some environments, where executing arbitrary code is restricted. Finally, if I remember correctly, the JavaScript ssh2 implementation has not been independently audited. Therefore, some people might not be allowed to use it.

If @jeanp413 is willing to include a feature to connect to arbitrary tunnels in his extension, sidestepping the ssh2 implementation, I would definitely contribute. Until that happens, I think this extension is worth keeping.

[GitMensch]

Sounds good, thank you.

While SSH is my dominant use-case I sometimes connect through other channels (i.e. Docker containers, etc.)

The README has only a note on how to connect to SSH, can you please adjust it with a note how to connect through other channels, especially to Docker?

[xaberus]

@GitMensch Yea, I was planning to do this for a while, but I am a little short on time right now, may be in a couple of weeks....