[CentOS-virt] hot-plug vfb on Xen domU?

Tue Jan 11 12:16:28 UTC 2011
Chris Wik <chris at anu.net>

I want to give my clients access to their Xen domU consoles using VNC. This works great using vfb device configured as type=vnc.

However I have 2 problems:

* I can't figure out how I can add a vfb device to a running domain without restarting it (I have 100+ domU's I want to enable this on, and want to avoid restarting them all if possible)

* Related, I can't figure out how I can change the VNC password without restarting the domU, as the password is specified in the vfb config.

Is what I am trying to do possible? How?

In case it matters: # xm info
host                   : <my.supersecret.hostname>
release                : 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5xen
version                : #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 13:35:30 EST 2010
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 4
nr_nodes               : 1
sockets_per_node       : 1
cores_per_socket       : 4
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 2394
hw_caps                : bfebfbff:28100800:00000000:00000140:0098e3fd:00000000:00000001
total_memory           : 24566
free_memory            : 8317
node_to_cpu            : node0:0-3
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 1
xen_extra              : .2-194.26.1.el5
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64 
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : unavailable
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)
cc_compile_by          : mockbuild
cc_compile_domain      : centos.org
cc_compile_date        : Tue Nov  9 12:45:24 EST 2010
xend_config_format     : 2


Thanks in advance

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Chris Wik
Anu Internet Services Ltd