From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew D. Ball" Subject: Re: Fwd: Display/Console for HVM domUs Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:16:38 -0500 Message-ID: <1163693799.24087.30.camel@localhost> References: <20061115005241.54029.qmail@web35801.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20061115010528.GE21142@redhat.com> Reply-To: aball@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20061115010528.GE21142@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Is anyone considering FreeNX in addition to VNC? Peace. Andrew On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 01:05 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:52:41PM -0800, jdsw wrote: > > Forwarding to dev list. > > /Jd > > > > jdsw wrote: Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 18:37:07 -0800 (PST) > > From: jdsw > > Subject: Display/Console for HVM domUs > > To: XenUsers > > > > Hi > > I have couple of questions on displays under HVM > > 1. When I kill window of DomU with sdl=1, the dom also dies... Is this a bug ? > > or expected behaviour. (quite annoying) > > Its expected - whether its desirable is a completely different matter. I question > the usefullness of SDL at all because of its dependance on having a connection to > the X server available form the shell in which you launch the guest. I can't > imagine how this will ever work once XenD has support for managing inactive domains > and stopping/starting them via the XML-RPC interface - since you'll not even have > the SSH forwarded display anymore. > > > 2. How do I determine the display number for DomUs running with vnc ? For me, > > the vnc display numbers are determined by the order in which the domUs were > > started. This is highly inconveniernt. I tried the vncdisplay=5 in the domu > > config file but it does not help. > > If you specify 'vncunused=1' in the config file it will allocate the first unused > port number counting from 5900. If you want to specify an explicit display then > set 'vncdisplay=5' and 'vncunused=0'. > > > Also, xm list -l domname also does not contain any indication of what display > > is being used ? I want to programatically determined the display number. > > The info on what port is being listened on is not exposed by either xm or XenD. > Instead it is hidden away in xenstore. > > # xenstore-ls /local/domain/1 | grep vnc > vnc-port = "5902" > > If you have libvirt installed, then it is also available when using virsh > command to view an XML dump of a domain, eg > > # virsh dumpxml demovm | grep graphics > > > > Regards, > Dan.