Re: [Xen-users] Problem setting up VNC on SLES10 HVM DomU

[jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Saw that you tracked down the problem to tcsh. Just some follow up comments:

On Monday 28 January 2008 05:20:20 am Evan Lavelle wrote:
> Dom0 is Fedora 8, Xen 3.1, so I haven't addressed your other points
> concerning SLES 10 Dom0's. The issue of looking at DomU's on a dom0 via
> qemu is interesting, but it doesn't fit in with the way I do things. The
> Dom0 is practically irrelevant - it's headless, and only exists to
> create and shutdown DomU's. I imagine that this is a common way to use
> Xen. Each DomU runs a vnc server, with a remote client somewhere else on
> the network.

The server being headless doesn't stop qemu-dm from serving a vnc session on 
dom0, for windows or linux. Less work for you installing a vnc server in your 
domu, since it is already setup. I suppose this is just the way you are used 
to working.

>> 2. Why are you using HVM for this instance rather than 
>> paravirtualisation?

> It's easier (ha). This box has 7 DomU's, Linux&Windows, all HVM, and all 
> worked out of the box, except OpenSUSE and SLES 10. I can live with the 
> lower performance, and I've had a lot of trouble with PV domU's on F8.

Actually, It might well be easier come upgrade time to the next SuSE version, 
since you can use the install dvd, instead of 'yum update' or Yast2. (You 
have to redefine your repository/sources definitions, and probably manually 
download and install 'openSUSE-release' to get things started. I had to do 
something similar going from fedora fc7 -> fc8.)

>> I know KDE has a 
>> desktop sharing option that allows you to temporarily share your 
>> desktop with another user via VNC. It would be interesting to see if 
>> this works. Do any of the usual logs (/var/log/messages etc.) provide 
>> any insights into what is going on?

> I only installed Gnome.

Gnome has 'vino' which does the same thing.

Glad it is working for you now.

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