* Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> [2009-03-30 15:51]:
> I am looking for detailed information or a single reproducible example of
> starting a VM using the qemu-kvm command from a script under Linux (and a
> display script on a control host, obviously). What software needs to be
> installed and running on the host, and what needs to be on the remote
> accessing display.
>
> Please: this is not a question about doing something else using some other
> method, I need to be able to drop a disk image and a few parameters into a
> KVM host and start it in such a way that there is not human intervention
> nor previous preparation such as virt-manager or similar.
>
> I run desktops and servers under KVM using both command line start and
> managers, I just keep running into documentation which tells me to use a
> "vnc specifier" without explanation of what that might look like or a
> single reproducible example of same.
-vnc localhost:1 -- will display the guest VGA display on the localhost.
A remote system can do:
vncviewer ${kvmhost}:1
to view the guest VGA.
>
> The host will be given a disk image and some parameters such as MAC address
> and memory size, and the machine which will have the display. That's my
> starting point, KVM host info will be used to start the viewer on another
> machine.
>
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> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
> the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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