On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Geoff Flarity <geoff.flar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I should have added, that you don't get the RFB message over an ssh tunnel. > 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