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From: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: How to run KVM on non-X environment
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:10:33 +0800 (CST)
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Hi Alberto,


Thanks for your detail advice.


--- Alberto Trevi=F1o <alberto@byu.edu> wrote:

> On Monday 28 July 2008 10:06:32 am you wrote:
> > I ran above command direct on the server as root (not remotely on
> > desktop)
> >
> > It just hangs there on Xterm.
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> As it should. :-) At that point, the VM is running.  It is a process
> on the=20
> system.  When the VM is powered off, the process will end and your
> XTerm=20
> will return to a bash prompt.  If you want your KVM to run in the=20
> background, run with the -daemonize option:
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>  kvm -hda ubuntu6.06.img -cdrom /dev/scd0 -m 512 -boot d -vnc :0
> -daemonize
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> > I expect clarifying following points;
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> > 1) I don't run X on the server.  There are no X packages installed.
> > 2) The CD on the CD-Drive is Ubuntu6.06 installer, NOT its iso
> image
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> Check.
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> > Can I use the above command? TIA
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> Yep.  However, I think at you this point you are not sure what's
> going on or=20
> how to proceed.
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> When you run the above command on the server, KVM is going to start
> the=20
> Virtual Machine.  It will assign the first hard drive to the
> ubuntu6.06.img=20
> file (which should have already been created using qemu-img), attach
> the CD=20
> drive to the Virtual Machine, assign it 512 MB of memory, and attach
> the=20
> virtual video output (what the monitor on a normal computer would
> display),=20
> keyboard and mouse to a VNC server.  At that point, the VM will
> perform a=20
> BIOS POST and attempt to boot from the CD drive.
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> At this stage, you need to connect to the virtual keyboard, mouse and
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> monitor via VNC from your desktop (not the server).  To do that, you
> use a=20
> VNC viewer to connect to your server (that means your server firewall
> needs=20
> to accept connections to port 5900).  Once you connect, your VNC
> session=20
> will display the video output of the VM.
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> As a side note, I would recommend you don't use the -daemonize option
> until=20
> you are ready to leave the VM running.  If your need to "reset" the
> virtual=20
> machine, you can use Ctrl-C to kill it and rerun the last command to
> restart=20
> it.  Be aware that using Ctrl-C is the equivalent of pulling the
> power cord=20
> on a regular machine, so use with care.

My problem here I don't have vnc-viewer running on the local desktop.=20
Nor I know which package I need.


Can I install vnc-client on the server.  Let the local desktop to start
it remotely and forward it to the desktop as vncviewer.  The desktop
can ssh-connect the server w/o problem.  If YES please advise how to do
it.  TIA


B.R.
Stephen

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