Hi Daniel Thanks for your suggestions, I will test that out. I am working on a solution for a RHEL5 environment actually, and as far as i know, this virt-viewer is not part of RHEL5. I think I will find a solution that will work. Probably virsh dumpxml <vmname> gives me some helpful information which can be included into my script. Many thanks for your help! regards, Juerg Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:11:24PM +0200, Juerg Ritter wrote: > >> Hello there! >> >> I am wondering if there is a possibility to define that the VNC Port of >> a virtual machine is always equal to the ID of the machine. That would >> be very interesting for scripting, and easy to find out on which VNC >> Display i have to search for a particular machine. Does anybody has an idea? >> > > You can request an explicit port for a VM, but there is no guarentee tht > the request will actually be honoured - if another process is using the > port you request, Xen will pick a different port. > > >> I would like to invoke something like: >> >> vncviewer <dom0>:<ID> >> > > In Fedora 7 there is a new tool which avoids the need to know the VNC > port at all. Simply tell it the name or ID or UUID of the guest when > running, eg with Xen > > virt-viewer [guest name|id|uuid] > > Or with KVM you can do > > virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system [guest name|id|uuid] > > Basically, virt-viewer contacts libvirt to find out the VNC port and > then displays a VNC client window. This VNC client also knows about the > new encryption support for VNC servers in Xen, QEMU & KVM, so can be > used securely over a remote link. In near future it will also be able > to automatically tunnel over SSH when needed. > > Regards, > Dan. > -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
