[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a Unbuntu Guest Under KVM

[Geoff Flarity]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Matt Connolly
<matt.connolly.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did this recently without any problems.
>
> On 02/12/2011, at 10:36 AM, Geoff Flarity wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I changed the -vnc to so use an outside world accessible ip:
>>
>> -vnc <outside world ip>:01
>
> I used "-vnc 0.0.0.0:1" as a qemu parameter.
>
>>
>> And now I connect. So it looks like it was ssh. But oddly, when I use
>> netcat to create a server, I can tunnel to it just fine:
>>
>> netcat -l localhost 5901
>>
>> ^ works fine with ssh tunnel.
>>
>> This moves me forward, but I really want to know why I can connect
>> with ssh? Any ideas?
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Geoff Flarity <geoff.flarity at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've got Ubuntu booting under kvm and now I'm trying to vnc into it in
>>> order to install it. I've got an ssh tunnel going through to
>>> localhost:5901 which the kvm-qemu vnc server seems to be listening on,
>>> ie the port opens with telnet.  When I try to connect to the vm with
>>> vnc no window comes up but the vnc client says it's connected. All the
>>> stuff I can find seems to imply that I should see the installer screen
>>> in vnc...
>
> So you're doing something like: "ssh -L5901:localhost:5901 user at host" ?

Exactly, yes.  Maybe I should have tried 0.0.0.0 instead though...

> I've seen some vnc clients that don't like to connect to localhost. Is there any reason you can't just vnc directly to the OI server?
>

It's not the client. If you telnet to a vnc port you see a 'RFB blah
blah' connection handsake message.

Not sure what you mean by vnc directly to OI server? I did bind vnc to
the external ip  that works. It's a 2U server and eventually it'll be
locked away.



> -Matt
>
>
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