On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Bill Gee bgee@campercaver.net wrote:
For my own deployments, I have a wiki page which documents what VNC ports are used.
I keep a page in KJots listing the ports used for my VirtualBox guests. It would be easy to do the same thing here. However, it seems a kludge. For large installations it is not tenable at all.
Maybe, but the port used for a host does not change.
There's also virsh commands to extract info. virsh dominfo <VM_name> virsh vncdisplay <VM_name>
Yep, I know about these. But I don't have virsh on the local computer.
Ok, install virsh? ( If solves the/a problem. )
I found where virsh can report the VNC port number used by a domain. However, the computers from where I am running VNC client do not have virsh installed.
They do not need virsh. SSH to the KVM host and run the virsh commands from there.
The ultimate goal is to create shortcuts in the Start menu which will launch directly to the guest. Your method requires the user to first ssh into the host and then modify the Start menu shortcut. This is not usable even in my small home network, never mind the problems with any kind of business environment.
Again, the VNC port used by a host does not change. Not sure I see the problem here.
There may be something out there that does exactly what you want. ( I don't know of it yet. :-/ ) [ I have been hoping that somebody who uses the KVM GUIs might chime in. ]
* Please do post with your final solution for the betterment of the CentOS Community.