From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: Graphical virtualisation management system Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:15:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20100625091546.GC6225@redhat.com> References: <20100625070542.GA24037@infradead.org> <4C2471CE.8050403@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Javier Guerra Giraldez , Freddie Cash , KVM mailing list To: Gerd Hoffmann Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38904 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751501Ab0FYJPx (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:15:53 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C2471CE.8050403@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:07:26AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 06/25/10 09:05, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >Second I > >still haven't figure out how to install and manage a system using the > >serial console with KVM, which certainly contributes to the complete > >lack of usability above. > > Serial console support doesn't work for remote connections. Dunno > whenever that is a restriction of virt-manager or the underlying libvirt. libvirt, kvm, virt-manager - arguably all of them :-) We really need to either tunnel the character device backend streams over VNC, or add a remote streams access API to libvirt, or virt-manager could do an ssh tunnel. VNC tunnelling is what I'd really like todo because that gives a solution that can work with even normal VNC clients like Vinagre. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|