On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:50:35AM +0000, Stephan wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install a virtual machine from a .iso DVD image but am having > problems, as VNC is listening on 127.0.0.1 only and this is a headless > server. > > Just as a bit of background information, I'm doing this via SSH on a Dell > Poweredge server which has Ubuntu Server 8.10 on and libvirt > 0.4.4-3ubuntu3. So far I've successfully virtualised Ubuntu using the > Ubuntu vm-builder and can connect to the screens via VNC. > > The command I'm using to install from .iso images is: > > sudo virt-install --hvm --accelerate --os-type=linux --bridge=br0 --ram=256 > --vcpus=4 --check-cpu --name=centos1 --file-size=4 --vnc > --file=/home/stephan/centos1 --location=/home/picseltech/centos.iso > > This is fine, it starts off the install and tells me I can connect via VNC > to finish it off. However, unfortunately the VNC connection is only > accessible through 127.0.0.1 and I'm doing this remotel NB, if you're connecting via SSH, then there is not any need to actually make it listen on a public interface. virt-viewer will automatically tunnel VNC connection over SSH too, eg eg, if you're using QEMU/KVM, then virt-viewer --connect qemu+ssh://root@somehostname/system centos1 Will connect to VNC remotely over SSH. > Is there a way to specify the VNC listening IP address for the new virtual > machine? > > In /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf I put vnc_listen = "172.16.1.10" , but it doesn't > pick that up. Did you remember to restart the libvirtd daemon after making this change ? This is the recommended way to make it listen on a public interface. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- 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
