Re: Install a new guest remotely?

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:20:02AM -0600, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> > is a pain I'm using virt-install but I need X installed, we do not 
> > install X on our servers at all, and will rather not to. So can I do 
> 
> Our KVM servers are remote and do not have X installed.
> 
> When we install a guest, we tell it to use vnc
> by adding --vnc --noautoconsole to the virt-install
> command.

Yep, that is the best way to run virt-install on a head-less machine

> Then use virsh vncdisplay to get the port on the server
> to connect your VNC viewer.  We use an SSH tunnel
> for the connection to ensure security.

You can also use  "virt-viewer"  to automate that bit of the process

  virt-viewer --connect qemu+ssh://root@servername/system GUESTNAME

and virt-viewer will connect to libvirt on the remote host, query the
VNC port and setup  an SSH tunnel for the VNC connection. It is 
essentially a VNC client that knows about libvirt. It can do TLS or
SASL security instead of SSH tunnels too if desired

Regards,
Daniel
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