[virt-tools-list] No VNC / virt-viewer output from guest VM

[Cole Robinson]

On 04/21/2010 12:10 PM, Dominik Schips wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 20.04.2010, 12:57 -0400 schrieb Cole Robinson:
>  
>>> Any advice how to debug virt-viewer, virt-manager to get informations
>>> about the VNC connections?
>>>
>>
>> You can try virt-viewer with --debug and/or --gtk-vnc-debug options.
>> Also, make sure that 'vncviewer localhost:5900' works when run from the
>> local machine: if that fails, it might be a qemu or kvm issue.
> 
> 
> My Debian version of virt-viewer don't have the --debug option.
> Other vnc programs I tried also din't connect to port localhost:5900.
> 
> I try to install the testsystem from scratch again and look if the
> problem still exists.
> 

You might also want to just run a simple qemu instance with

qemu disk.img -vnc 127.0.0.1:0

and see if a VNC connection works. That will eliminate libvirt from the mix.

> 
> ii  virt-viewer                             0.0.3-2
> 
> 

I guess the --debug options were only exposed with later virt-viewer
versions.

- Cole