Re: [Xen-users] Xen and Windows in Fedora 7

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:01:21PM +0400, ymed wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:34:14PM +0400, ymed wrote:
> >> I have found that Xen HVMs in Fedora 7 work only via VNC.
> >> virsh dumpxml xp64 > xp64.xml
> >> shows me <graphics type='vnc' port='-1'/> and Windows screen is available.
> >> When I set it to <graphics type='sdl'/> virt-manager says that the console
> >> is currently unavailable... The same situation is when I use xm create...
> >> but domain starts sucessfully...
> >
> >SDL graphics are used to popup a standalone X window. Virt-manager wants to
> >have the virtual console embedded within its own UI. So if you want to be
> >able to display the console in virt-manager, VNC is the only practical option
> >for now. 
> 
> But in VNC it's not possible to use cd-rom or iso-files. Also full screen 
> is not available and mouse works with interrupts. Usually I used SDL for
> local graphic and VNC for remote....

Huh?  CDROM/ISO files work just fine with VNC. If you want to change the
media / file, then the command line  'xm block-configure' command can be
used.  

Now full screen capabilities are upto the VNC client - virt-manager 
can make its main window go full screen, but won't currently stretch the
guest console to fill the entire screen. We've got a new VNC widget being
written to allow us to do that better. As for mouse, that's another thing
that will be attacked in a not-too-distant release, by making it choose
either a USB tablet, or regular tablet which allows absolute mouse co-ords
to be used. In the meantime we 'grab' the local mouse cursor and hide it
so you only see the remote cursor - this is (almost) equivalent to what SDL
does with the mouse.

Dan.
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