[CentOS] Secret incantations for virt-viewer?
SilverTip257
silvertip257 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 17:47:30 UTC 2015
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net> wrote:
>
> > For my own deployments, I have a wiki page which documents what VNC ports
> > are used.
>
> I keep a page in KJots listing the ports used for my VirtualBox guests. It
> would be easy to do the same thing here. However, it seems a kludge. For
> large installations it is not tenable at all.
>
Maybe, but the port used for a host does not change.
>
> > There's also virsh commands to extract info.
> > virsh dominfo <VM_name>
> > virsh vncdisplay <VM_name>
>
> Yep, I know about these. But I don't have virsh on the local computer.
>
Ok, install virsh?
( If solves the/a problem. )
>
> > > I found where virsh can report the VNC port number used by a domain.
> > > However,
> > > the computers from where I am running VNC client do not have virsh
> > > installed.
> >
> > They do not need virsh.
> > SSH to the KVM host and run the virsh commands from there.
>
> The ultimate goal is to create shortcuts in the Start menu which will
> launch
> directly to the guest. Your method requires the user to first ssh into the
> host and then modify the Start menu shortcut. This is not usable even in
> my
> small home network, never mind the problems with any kind of business
> environment.
>
Again, the VNC port used by a host does not change. Not sure I see the
problem here.
There may be something out there that does exactly what you want.
( I don't know of it yet. :-/ )
[ I have been hoping that somebody who uses the KVM GUIs might chime in. ]
* Please do post with your final solution for the betterment of the CentOS
Community.
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Mike
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