Re: More vcd info wanted

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Ryan Harper wrote:
> * 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.
> 
Thanks, will try later tonight. Have to have a bit of care getting the number 
right (unique) since there might be more than one of these, but this may be all 
I need.

>> 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.
>>

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