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 <[email protected]> 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" ? 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? -Matt _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
