[CentOS] wiki - vnc -gerald and walsh, update?

[Bob Hoffman]

On 3/22/2012 11:03 PM, Bob Hoffman wrote:
> On 3/22/2012 10:26 PM, Bob Hoffman wrote:
>> To GeraldClark and PjWelsh,
>> I have centos 6 and used your guide to get it going with vnc.
>> First of all thanks for putting that up, so many techs told me I did not
>> have to install a desktop to make it work and they were so wrong.
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server
>>
>>
> so this is what I did in centos 6 tonight to make it work for me...
>
> as root
> yum install tigervnc-server
> ran vncpasswd, added a password
> /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, uncommented line 18 and 19, added root
> started and stopped, service vncserver start / stop
> opened port 5902 in iptables, restarted iptables
> |INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5902 -j ACCEPT
>
>
> service vncserver start
>
> downloaded tigervnc from source forge
> download putty
>
> in putty I made a saved session called 'vnc to my server'
> went to connections, ssh, tunnels in putty explorer
> added source port, 5902
> destination I put in localhost:5902
> click add
> then save the whole session (go back to session page)
> open a putty session (click open), making sure it was my vnc session
> logged into server
> opened tigervnc
> put in localhost:5902 and hit ok.
> I was in like flynn...
>
> awesome. so much faster than ipmi
>
>

AS a last addition.
I added this to my existing system too. It has many virtual machines.
I had the error " Starting VNC server: 2:root A VNC server is already 
running as :2"

after many reinstalls and many attempts and seeing 1,000s of posts from 
people freaking out, I took the initiative and thought that libvirt was 
conflicting. I changed the number to 8 in the /sysconfig/vncserver 
file....and then it worked easily.

Not sure what will happen if you select 2, 3, etc....and then add some 
virtual machines. I see conflicts ahead.