From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Harper Subject: Re: More vcd info wanted Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:07:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20090330210738.GB27104@us.ibm.com> References: <49D13059.5040201@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: KVM list To: Bill Davidsen Return-path: Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:36604 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752287AbZC3VHm (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:07:42 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n2UL9BF8006271 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:09:11 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n2UL7efh155440 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:07:40 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n2UL7dBp017647 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:07:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49D13059.5040201@tmr.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Bill Davidsen [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 > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ryanh@us.ibm.com