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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.