On 28/12/2020 06:04, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users wrote:
Here's the environment: Bulk storage server for whole home - 45drives.com Storinator - 1 of 3 payload bays populated with 15 x 4TB drives in a 39 TB ZFS raidz3 array - OS is CentOS 8.3 with array - NFS shared as /tank - /etc/exports contains /tank 192.168.1.0/24(rw/sync,root_squash) - samba not yet configured Linux laptop - ThinkKPad P72 with 2 TB NVME boot drive - OS is Fedora 33 - /etc/fstab contains store:/tank /tank nfs defaults 0 0 - tank array mounted on /tank Windows 10 Pro PC My original concept was to create a 240 GB VM in the /tank/VM/ space and prototype C7, C8, or F33 versions of a physical storage server at a client site with a 240 GB SSD boot drive and 4 x 500 GB LVM RAID5 array served out with Samba to multiple client PCs and MACs. I wanted to use a TigerVNC client on the Linux laptop to set up and configure the 240 GB VM on the storage server, but because the upstream author has munged its systemd conversion this is no longer possible. I also wanted to use RDP to connect the Windows PC to test samba connections on the VM running TigerVNC server. Unfortunately I've run into permissions hell and can get none of these working. I would like to find an alternative to TigerVNC that will work in the target environment.
To verify. 1. The VM's disk will be located on the file system mounted on that laptop at /tank in a subdirectory VM. 2. The VM is running on the laptop. That is, the laptop is running virt-manager. Meaning the laptop is the host. 3. Your user is a member of the libvirt group. (Ignoring for the moment that it isn't clear to me what you mean by, and where the 240 GB SSD boot drive and 4 x 500 GB LVM RAID5 array resides. And/or, if that storage is to be part of the C7, C8 VM's in some manner.) If the above is true, then I see no need to connect to the storage server via VNC. On the laptop I would run something akin to.... qemu-img create -f qcow2 /tank/VM/F33.qcow2 240G Then running virt-manager on the laptop follow the steps to create a new VM and in the step to create or choose the storage location point to /tank/VM/F33.qcow2. --- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
