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. -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //