[virt-tools-list] Console for specific VMs only

Jonathon Jongsma jjongsma at redhat.com
Fri Jan 9 15:04:11 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 08:47 -0500, Steve Amerige wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just joined this list.  I've been using KVM for a couple of years
> now and have just joined the list.  I use virt-manager as well as
> command line tools and custom software that we've written to manage a
> KVM server farm based on CentOS 6.6 and CentOS 7.0.
> 
> My first question for the group is this: While I, as an administrator,
> use virt-manager and can open the console to a particular VM, I
> frequently have internal customers that I want to give access to a
> specific VM only so that they can have console access to their VM.
> 
> If virt-manager had a way of being restricted to showing just one VM,
> then I could provide a secure script that calls virt-manager in this
> way.
> 
> Is this possible?  Is there any way today to open from the command
> line the console for a specific VM?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve Amerige
> Principal Software Developer, Fraud and Compliance Solutions
> Development
> SAS Institute, 100 SAS Campus Dr, Room U3050, Cary, NC 27513-8617 
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virt-viewer / remote-viewer can be used to view a single vm console. In
addition it also has multimonitor support, etc. Is that basically what
you're looking for?

Jonathon




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