[virt-tools-list] Using virt-rescue from within Virtualbox VM

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 04:34:08PM +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
> Greetings all.
> 
> I have installed the virt-* tools inside a Virtualbox openSUSE 12.3 VM. Virtualbox is running on my Mac OS X machine.
> 
> I can ssh directly from my Mac machine to a remote host that runs suse 12.3 and Xen hypervisor.
> 
> libvirtd is running on the remote xen host and ncat is also installed.
> 
> I can ssh from my Mac into the suse 12.3 VM running in Virtualbox OK, and push and pull files to the VM with scp from my Mac.
> 
> What I want to do is use the virt tools and VMM to connect from the Virtualbox suse 12.3 VM out to the Mac machine and then to the remote xen host.
> 
> Is it possible to do this please?

I'm pretty confused about what you're trying to do, and indeed what it
has to do with virt-rescue.  However: how about ssh X11 and/or port
forwarding?

Rich.

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