xen discuss - Jul 2007 - Remote desktop from Solaris Dom0 to FC6 HVM

Since my Fedora HVM DomU boots to the text mode shell, I was looking for the
remote desktop through the VNC remote login. The following instructions work
well on my DomU.

1. Use vncpasswd command to set a vnc server password.
2. Edit the VNC server configuration file, /etc/sysconfig/vncservers. And add
the followings to it:

VNCSERVERS="1:root"
VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 1024x768"

3. Start the vncserver at boot time:
# chkconfig vncserver on
 
4. Change the window manager from the simple twm to the normal desktop:
# vi ~/.vnc/xstartup
Uncomment the two lines following
"Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop"

5. Start vncserver immediatly
# service vncserver start

6. Connect to the vncserver with vncviewer:
On Windows system:
Download and install the tightvnc windows client software from
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html#stable. After start the vncviewer, input
the IP:Display (eg. 10.239.56.94:1) and the vnc password.
On Solaris system:
# java -jar /usr/share/gnome/vino/vino-client.jar VNC_address
where VNC_address is the IP:Display, eg. 10.239.56.94:1. 

Allen
OpenSolaris Team @ Intel Open Source Technology Center

It works for me as well. I was frustrated when I couldn''t access my
machine from work because it was shut down. Now I can power it ON/OFF remotely
with browser and this card:
   https://ool-43537bf6.dyn.optonline.net/Power%20Web%20Button.htm
 
 
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