[Users] test day help -- console

[Jiri Belka]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:57:52 -0500 (EST)
Greg Sheremeta <gshereme at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'm having a tough time getting a VM console working via VNC. I set a VM to use VNC, and I installed virt-viewer.
> 
> 1. When I try to open a .vv file with virt-viewer, I get an error "Cannot find guest domain /var/tmp/console.vv"
> 2. Using a VNC client to connect to the host with the password in the .vv file just immediately disconnects it -- no error message.
> 3. noVNC just gives me an empty popup with a gray background.

virt-viewer works ok even on my OpenBSD machine at home.

First check version, if old, compile/upgrade yourself. Updating to
latest spice-gtk, gtk-vnc, virt-viewer recently solved virt-viewer
core dumps when I had RHEL with GNOME and qxl driver.

j.