On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Matt Connolly <matt.connolly...@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.flar...@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@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 > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss