I probably should have made it clear that I have in mind regular installs, not virtual machines. Thanks! -Mike --- "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:43:06AM -0800, Michael Harrison wrote: > > I'd like to be able to watch the installation display during the > > initial configuring / testing / debugging cycle of kickstarts and > > templates and whatnot. What is the recommended way of configuring > vnc > > for this purpose? > > > > /var/lib/cobbler/settings has a kernel_options stanza which seems > the > > logical place for it. Is the 'text' variable meant for arbitrary > stuff > > to be passed to the kernel, so vnc options could be added there? > > You don't really want to use the guest OS installer's VNC options. > All > KVM or Xen guests have ability to setup a graphical display an expose > that securely as a VNC server. So whether the guest is Linux, or > Windows > or something else you can access it via VNC. A regular VNC viewer is > one option, but if you want secure access use simple 'virt-viewer' > app > or the full blown 'virt-manager' app. I can't remember what the > Cobbler > option for turning on VNC is, but I'm sure someone will point it out > if > its not in the man page... > > Dan. > -- > |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 > 2496 -=| > |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ > -=| > |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ > -=| > |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B > 9505 -=| > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
