KVM without X-Window System

KVM without X-Window System

[Fermín Manzanedo Guzmán]

Hi.

In order to improve virtualization capabilities to our company we are 
trying to use KVM instead other techonolgies.

Our servers haven't X-Window System enabled due to performance and 
security criteria.

¿Is it possible to install KVM guests whitout X? We try to use either 
the -vnc none nor the -nographic options but it seems to hang when try 
to install a guest OS due (mey be?) to the needing of an X environment.

Any help may be appreciated.

Thanks.

PS: I'm not a list suscriber so please CC to my email any reply

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Fermin Manzanedo Guzman
System Administrator

Re: KVM without X-Window System

[Brian Jackson]

If you use -vnc, then KVM runs and just sits there on the command line. It 
doesn't prompt you when it's ready or anything. So you can connect via VNC as 
soon as you start KVM. You connect with VNC just like you normally would to a 
server running a regular VNC server.

--Brian Jackson

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:40:45 Fermín Manzanedo Guzmán wrote:
> Hi.
>
> In order to improve virtualization capabilities to our company we are
> trying to use KVM instead other techonolgies.
>
> Our servers haven't X-Window System enabled due to performance and
> security criteria.
>
> ¿Is it possible to install KVM guests whitout X? We try to use either
> the -vnc none nor the -nographic options but it seems to hang when try
> to install a guest OS due (mey be?) to the needing of an X environment.
>
> Any help may be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS: I'm not a list suscriber so please CC to my email any reply
>
> --
> Fermin Manzanedo Guzman
> System Administrator
>
>
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Re: KVM without X-Window System

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Fermín Manzanedo Guzmán schrieb:
> Hi.
> 
> In order to improve virtualization capabilities to our company we are 
> trying to use KVM instead other techonolgies.
> 
> Our servers haven't X-Window System enabled due to performance and 
> security criteria.
> 
> ¿Is it possible to install KVM guests whitout X? We try to use either 
> the -vnc none nor the -nographic options but it seems to hang when try 
> to install a guest OS due (mey be?) to the needing of an X environment.
> 
> Any help may be appreciated.

Did you try Proxmox VE?

http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page

It uses KVM and is very well integrated.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

Re: KVM without X-Window System

[Fermín Manzanedo Guzmán]

Brian Jackson escribió:
> If you use -vnc, then KVM runs and just sits there on the command line. It 
> doesn't prompt you when it's ready or anything. So you can connect via VNC as 
> soon as you start KVM. You connect with VNC just like you normally would to a 
> server running a regular VNC server.
>
> --Brian Jackson
>   
>

Hi!

It seems to be solved! Like any of you said in mails I installed an 
X-Server, then start kvm like this:

  kvm -hda /VM/prueba1 -cdrom debian-500-i386-netinst.iso -boot d -m 512 
-daemonize -vnc <our_IP>:1

And try to open a vnc session to the IP. This shows the install screen. 
Now we're installing our first virtual machine with KVM.

Thanks a lot.

--
Fermín Manzanedo Guzmán
System Administrator