Re: More vcd info wanted

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

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 
>   

If you say -vnc localhost:1, then vncviewer ${kvmhost}:1 will certainly 
not work.

You have to say -vnc :1, then vncviewer ${kvmhost}:1.

And happiness will ensue by s/vncviewer/vinagre/.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori