[Fedora-xen] RHEL Update Virt-Manager VNC Problems

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Dec 1 10:27:22 UTC 2008


On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 07:02:00PM -0800, Jim Klein wrote:
> Just updated all my RHEL4 VMs and RHEL 5 hosts, and virt-manager can no 
> longer connect to the consoles on the vms. Tried recreating VNC adapters 
> in virt-manager to no avail. VMs running kernel 2.6.9-78.0.8.ELxenU. Must
> be missing something, but not sure where to look. Any assistance would be
> greatly appreciated. 

Use 'virsh dumpxml' to look at the running domain config. It should show
you a element like "<graphics type='vnc' port='5900'/>". If the port
number is -1, then its failed to start VNC for some reason. If the graphics
tag is missing completely then the config file is wrong.

Daniel
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