On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 11:30:54AM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote: > hi Dan, I think it over, and seems more concern, see below, > > Daniel P. Berrange ??????: > >On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 07:31:07PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote: > > > >>Hi Daniel, > >> > >>Here I have another question on virt-manager, as you write "an embedded > >>VNC client viewer provides console access to each of the guest domains", > >>my concern is where is the vnc server, who provide it, and start it? > >>Need we setup vnc? I looked through the process used to create guest, > >>seems there is no any step for vnc... > >> > > > >The VNC server depends on what type of domain is being run. For HVM guests > >the VNC server is provided by the qemu-dm process assoicated with that > >guest. For paravirt guests, VNC is only available if you have the paravirt > >framebuffer patches applied to your xen tree - these are not in > >xen-unstable > >yet. In paravirt, XenD will launch a xen-vncfb process to provide the VNC > >server. > due to vnc connection is required by vnc-viewer, vnc-viewer can present > the graphical console, > because there is no paravirt framebuffer patches applied to > xen-unstable, so virt-manager can't work > with xen-unstable for paravirt guests, because we can't get the > graphical console run. is it right? That is correct - the paravirt framebuffer patches are no yet in the xen-unstable tree. In Fedora kernels we apply them as a patch ourselves since it was important to have graphical console available for both PV and FV guests in the same way. So any FC5, FC6 or RHEL-5 guest has the PV framebuffer patches available already, even though they're not upstream > xen-unstable should be the latest version of Xen, if it has no paravirt > framebuffer patches, maybe xen-stable > should have no either? and if so, we may say virt-manager not support > paravirt at the moment? The PV framebuffer patches have been submitted several times & it looks like they are very close to being merged upstream. Perhaps next couple of weeks if all goes well. Regards, 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 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
