Brett:
Thank you for your help. It has been a few days since I was able to give this a try. However I installed Cygwin on my Windows desktop and SSH'd to the headless machine. I then ran virt-install without the graphics support. Doing this I was able to get past where it was stuck before.
I get the CentOS menus for selecting language and then it asks me to configure the IPs. I will only be using IPv4 so I disabled IPV6. However whenever I tell it to use DHCP it hangs forever and I end up having to do a xm destroy and recreate the guest.
Can anyone suggest what the next course of action would be? The server has a single physical NIC and 1 IP. Will I need to request an additional IP address to use with the new guest I create?
Thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:58 A To: brett@worth.id.au; Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Brett Worth brett@worth.id.au wrote:
Jason Taylor wrote: When you connect to the Centos server from your remote console you said
before that you're
using ssh. Is this from another Linux system? You need to ensure that
you have access to
your local graphical interface from the remote server i.e. that you have a
valid DISPLAY
variable set. If "echo $DISPLAY" returns an empty string then maybe you
just need to do
"ssh -X centos_server" when connecting so that ssh will forward the X11
back to your
display. Then virt-manager should work.
Sometimes ssh -Y works when ssh -X doesn't. Over time I've started using ssh -Y as it always works.
If the server is setup correctly, it will not allow you to ssh as root, you'll need to ssh -Y as yourself and then su -. When you use the su command you might loose the DISPLAY variable, in this case simply re-establish it and all should work.
If you workstation is Linux, you have an X-Display running. If it is Windows, you can use Cygwin as your X-Server.
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