On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 09:40:13PM -0600, Larry Martell wrote:
I had posted last week about trying to get VNC working. I was never successful nor were multiple admins. But we realized that all the
hosts we
tried on were VMs. We followed the same procedure ( http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server) on a machine with
physical
HW
and it worked with no problem. But on the VM I can connect, but I
don't get
any window displayed. Here is what is in the log:
Does anyone out there have VNC working on a VM?
My only access to the host is via ssh so I don't think I can do that.
I haven't followed this thread that closely, so hopefully, I'm not suggesting something that has already been discarded.
Say the host is called kvmserver and your guest is called kvmguest. While on there, with ssh session
virsh vncdisplay kvmguest
It will tell you if its on display 0, 1, 2, or whatever.
Let's say it's on 0.
On your local machine
ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 kvmhost
Now, if you do vncviewer localhost, it will open up a console on the remote kvm machine.
If running virsh vncdisplay kvmguest shows 5901 or 5902, then change the 5900 to that number, and change vncviewer localhost to vncviewer localhost:1 localhost:2 or whatever.