[CentOS-virt] VNC not connecting

Tue Oct 20 20:27:49 UTC 2009
Ed Heron <Ed at Heron-ent.com>

From: "Neil Aggarwal", Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:35 PM

> ...
> When I do that, I get this error:
> 
> (virt-viewer:3083): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to
> the console to complete the installation process.
> ...

  include the --noautoconsole option on your virt-install command

> ...
> Next, I tried to connect TightVNC viewer from my
> Windows XP laptop.  I entered 192.168.2.200:3
> as the server and tried to connect, but that failed.
> ...

  Did you open the VNC port in iptables in dom0?

  Did you add (vnc-listen '0.0.0.0') in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp?

  Please consider adding a vncpasswd config item in your xend-config.sxp