[Xen-cim] Python script problems, part 7 - no xen-vncfb

["Szymanski, Lukasz K" <Lukasz.Szymanski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Fehlig 
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:21 PM
To: Szymanski, Lukasz K
Subject: Re: Got it

Szymanski, Lukasz K wrote:
>
> Jim -
>
> I finally have the script working.  The final bug was this: I did not 
> have xen-vncfb installed.  The reason for that - I did not have 
> libvncserver installed.  I think it's odd that at no point I got an 
> error that this was the case.
>
> Let me start from the beginning:
>
> I ended up putting debug statements in vnbif.py.  At the end of the 
> "vnc" if clause its supposed to execute xen-vncfb with a
> spawn_detached(arguments) call.  This failed, but there was no error 
> information in xend.log.  Do you know where it may have been?  I did 
> not see it in /var/log/messages either.  Anyway, it failed because the

> file xen-vncfb did not exist.  I found it in the xen tree, tried to 
> make it, but it needed libvncserver as a dependency.  Once I got that 
> taken care of, it needed the libvncserver and libvncclient files in 
> the /usr/lib64 directory to make it happy.
>
> I wonder why no one else has this problem.  Do you have libvncserver 
> installed?  xen-vncfb?  Was my not having it my fault does everyone 
> already have libvncserver installed and happy?
>

Yeah, didn't think to mention that.  One thing I do with bits directly
from xenbits.xensource.com is enable enable Xen API c-binding and
xen-vncfb in Config.mk.  E.g.

# Optional components
XENSTAT_XENTOP     ?= y
VTPM_TOOLS         ?= n
LIBXENAPI_BINDINGS ?= y
XENFB_TOOLS        ?= y
PYTHON_TOOLS       ?= y

Sorry, like I said it didn't even cross my mind but certainly necessary
when specifying 'vfb =' in vm config.  I guess there should be some
better error messages in xend so the next poor sole isn't scratching
their head :-).  Perhaps knock up a patch and send it to xen-devel.

Well glad you were able to get this solved - what a nightmare.  So I'm
headed out tomorrow.  Will check email on occasion so let me know if you
are having any other problems.  I will do some work on instance
providers using Gareth's latest interface - hopefully knock out the
remaining ones over the next few weeks.

Enjoy the 4th!
Jim

> Thanks for your help,
> Luke
>
> PS.  I will post the summarized version of this on the Xen-CIM list.
>

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