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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: 2 errors with latest Xen

Jun Koi wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use the latest Xen from hg repo to run 2 HVM here. I got the
>> problem: all these 2 cannot be started.
>>
>> 1) For a Vista VM: qemu-dm.log says that "/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm:
>> invalid option -- '-vncviewer' "
>> I can confirm that I have no vncviewer option in my configuration. So
>> this is very confused.
> 
> It seems that for some unknown reasons, xen run qemu-dm with option
> -vncviewer, and qemu-dm complains about that (then it failed to
> start).
> 
> I notice that I dont have this problem with Linux HVM, but only with
> Vista HVM. Is there any reason why xen behaves differently on Vista
> and Linux HVM? (there is no difference between configurations)
> 



The vncconsole option seems to be broken.
The following patch fixes the problem for me.


diff -r c3b5e36248c9 tools/python/xen/xend/image.py
--- a/tools/python/xen/xend/image.py    Tue Feb 03 18:14:19 2009 +0000
+++ b/tools/python/xen/xend/image.py    Wed Feb 04 12:04:07 2009 +0000
@@ -372,8 +372,6 @@
             env['DISPLAY'] = self.display
         if self.xauthority:
             env['XAUTHORITY'] = self.xauthority
-        if self.vncconsole:
-            args = args + ([ "-vncviewer" ])
         unique_id = "%i-%i" % (self.vm.getDomid(), time.time())
         sentinel_path = sentinel_path_prefix + unique_id
         sentinel_path_fifo = sentinel_path + '.fifo'
diff -r c3b5e36248c9 tools/python/xen/xm/create.py
--- a/tools/python/xen/xm/create.py     Tue Feb 03 18:14:19 2009 +0000
+++ b/tools/python/xen/xm/create.py     Wed Feb 04 12:04:07 2009 +0000
@@ -1337,7 +1337,7 @@
     elif not opts.is_xml:
         dom = make_domain(opts, config)
         
-    if opts.vals.vncviewer:
+    if opts.vals.vncconsole:
         domid = domain_name_to_domid(sxp.child_value(config, 'name', -1))
         vncviewer_autopass = getattr(opts.vals,'vncviewer-autopass', False)
         console.runVncViewer(domid, vncviewer_autopass, True)

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