Mac VNC Client for Linux KVM
When you build a KVM guest, if you want to install the guest over the network, you should attach the video console of your guest to a VNC display.
How can I put this..? This is quite a novel way of doing it. I think there’s a reason that more virtualisation systems don’t work in this way. VNC is not great, but I am sure there is a reason that I can’t use a dummy serial port instead. I’d have preferred RDP, but perhaps there’s a reason I can’t use that too.
I normally use Chicken of the VNC as a mac osx client, because it has a funny name, and has always worked. However, it crashes and burns (see screen shot) when trying to install Debian on a KVM guest. Hopefully I can save someone else an evenings’s worth of trying every other mac vnc client, and offer the fix. Just use VNCViewer. I tried this after half a dozen others which all failed in a similar way to Chicken.
Any comments on why RDP or Serial might not have been better welcome.
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April 6th, 2008 at 9:05 am
The main reason you couldn’t use RDP is because it’s an MS protocol. There is only one non-MS implementation in the wild (xrdp), and that only works with X.org via Xvnc anyway.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Also, VNC was probably chosen for openness and ubiquity. Most devices have a VNC viewer these days. Using an open protocol rather than writing a custom UI seems like a fairly sensible shortcut. The problem only comes to light because all Mac VNC software sucks as, it seems, you have discovered!
September 20th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
You saved one man a night tearing his hair out / trying every client for a night! Thanks dude…