On 03/23/2012 12:01 AM, Bob Hoffman wrote: > 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. Let me recommend to you that you try to run spice instead of VNC ... especially if you care about sound: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Spice-libvirt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120323/0c3b6b85/attachment-0004.sig>