Re: More vcd info wanted

[Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>]

* Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> [2009-03-30 15:51]:
> I am looking for detailed information or a single reproducible example of 
> starting a VM using the qemu-kvm command from a script under Linux (and a 
> display script on a control host, obviously). What software needs to be 
> installed and running on the host, and what needs to be on the remote 
> accessing display.
> 
> Please: this is not a question about doing something else using some other 
> method, I need to be able to drop a disk image and a few parameters into a 
> KVM host and start it in such a way that there is not human intervention 
> nor previous preparation such as virt-manager or similar.
> 
> I run desktops and servers under KVM using both command line start and 
> managers, I just keep running into documentation which tells me to use a 
> "vnc specifier" without explanation of what that might look like or a 
> single reproducible example of same.

-vnc localhost:1 -- will display the guest VGA display on the localhost.
A remote system can do:

vncviewer ${kvmhost}:1 

to view the guest VGA.

> 
> The host will be given a disk image and some parameters such as MAC address 
> and memory size, and the machine which will have the display. That's my 
> starting point, KVM host info will be used to start the viewer on another 
> machine.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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> the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
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Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
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