Fedora xen - Jul 2007 - No graphical console for HVM guests in F7?

Hi,

I recently migrated my Xen guests to a new host running F7 (64 bit), the old one
was FC6 (64 bit). After this migration, I do not have a graphical console for my
hvm guests when I double click a vm in virt-manager. This worked in FC6 and it 
still works for pv guests.

The only exception is my 32 bit (hvm) Fedora 7 guest which I created at the new 
host so it uses the new config system. This hvm guest is the only one which has 
a graphical console.

I guess my problem is related to the Xen update from 3.0.3 -> 3.1 but I
don''t
know how to enable graphical consoles...

Thank you very much.
fs

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 06:12:05PM +0200, Felix Schwarz
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently migrated my Xen guests to a new host running F7 (64 bit), the 
> old one was FC6 (64 bit). After this migration, I do not have a graphical 
> console for my hvm guests when I double click a vm in virt-manager. This 
> worked in FC6 and it still works for pv guests.
> 
> The only exception is my 32 bit (hvm) Fedora 7 guest which I created at the
> new host so it uses the new config system. This hvm guest is the only one 
> which has a graphical console.
> 
> I guess my problem is related to the Xen update from 3.0.3 -> 3.1 but I 
> don''t know how to enable graphical consoles...
Upstream changed the syntax in the config files for this, but there is
supposed to be back-compatability support for the old syntax in there.
You should file a bug about this not working.

Anyway, old syntax was

   vnc=1

And one or more of

   vnclisten=1
   vncunused=1
   vncdisplay=4
   vncpassword=xxxxx

Now, it uses 

  vfb = [ ''type=vnc,vncunsed=1,vncdisplay=5,vncpassword=xxxxx''
]

So you may also wish to try updating the configs

Dan.
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Daniel P. Berrange schrieb:
> Upstream changed the syntax in the config files for this, but there is
> supposed to be back-compatability support for the old syntax in there.
Thank you very much. Adding "vfb = [
''type=vnc,vncunused=1'' ]" fixed the issue
for me (although I have to change nearly a dozen vm configurations...).
> You should file a bug about this not working.
[x] done
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248497

fs