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Re: HVM support in sysutils/xentools33 included?



On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Jens Rehsack wrote:
xentools33 includes HVM support. xentools3 is an older Xen version.

Yes, but I wondered why SDL is commented out. I couldn't get any guest
booted without sdl (I've removed the comment and rebuild xentools33).
Maybe I made something wrong, but neither openbsd nor fedora guests
giving me a console window. As far as I understood, vnc could help me
out, but when this is the only way, why it's not a dependency?

qemu, which is used internally in the Xen HVM tools, provides a console via VNC natively.

Here's what I have at the end of my HVM configuration file:
sdl = 0
vnc = 1
vncdisplay = 0
vncunused = 1
vncpasswd=""
vnclisten='127.0.0.1'
keymap='en-gb'
usb=1
usbdevice='tablet'

Also the version difference between net/vnc and net/vncviewer confuses me.

net/vnc is the server side. You can use net/vncviewer to speak to an HVM Xen domU.

"vncviewer localhost" will work with the above configuration (for the first domU).

--
Stephen



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