Re: [Xen-users] VNC access console of paravirtualised DomU

[Ian Murray <murrayie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was trying the a debootstrapped hardy DomU and had to  do this stuff to the ramdisk, so thanks again for this.

One thing for sure is that I wouldn't have got there on my own!!

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From: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ian Murray <murrayie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2008 6:11:19
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] VNC access console of paravirtualised DomU

--- On Sun, 10/26/08, Ian Murray <murrayie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Ian Murray <murrayie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-users] VNC access console of paravirtualised DomU
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 7:49 AM

Hi,

I've seen this asked a few times, but I just can't work out whether I am misinterpreting how this is supposed to work, or if it is just broken in my setup.

What I want is to be able to see the character cell console of DomU's via VNC. As far as I understand, when I create/startup the DomU, then a vnc server should start listening on my Dom0. I have tried every combination of VNC=1, VNCVIEWER=0 in my config file but at no point do I get a VNC port being opened for listening on the Dom0. Dom0 is Hardy Heron, DomU's are Centos 5.2 and Hardy.
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At CentOS 5.2 DomU vfb works fine:-

http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/pygrub-install-centos-52-pv-domu-at-xen-32-ubuntu-hardy-dom0-via-local-http-server-all-64-bit/

View:-

http://blog.bashton.com/2008/running-an-ubuntu-hardy-xen-domu-under-a-centos-dom0/

Personally, i failed when followed link above to get graphical login via vfb
as advised above and just set it up in Hardy DomU:-

http://bderzhavets.blogspot.com/2008/10/install-ubuntu-hardy-pv-domu-vnc-at.html
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All the Xen kernel and tools were as was provided by the repositories. When I was trying this a while ago with Centos 5.1 as the Dom0, I was using virtual machine manager which seemed to give me a colourful representation of the console/, which I assume now was over VNC. I haven't got that setup anymore to reference, alas and virtual-machine-manager seems broken on Hardy, afa I can tell.

So, am I missing something or is it supposed to work the way I described? If so, what should I have in my config files/sxp to make it work?

Thanks in advance and be gentle with me because I am a noob Xen user!

Ian.

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