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

[pruit <mike.miller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

jim burns wrote:
> 
> 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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FYI.  I was able to resolve the remote login blank screen problem by adding
/usr/X11R6/bin and /opt/gnome/bin to my path in my .cshrc file.
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