Re: [Libvir] Opening KVM guest in xterm rather than vnc

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:52:59PM -0700, David Mueller wrote: > I'm trying to setup my virtual machines to display in an xterm window > rather than a VNC window. The guests and host are Fedora 7; the guest > only needs to run in a console mode (no X11). I see a bit on > http://libvirt.org/format.html about using a console tag instead of > graphics in my XML, but I can't figure out how to connect to that. > > With our older Xen on Fedora Core 5 setup, we used the following > command to create a guest and it worked great; I'm trying to > approximate something similar with libvirt/KVM on Fedora 7: > > xterm -e "/usr/sbin/xm create -c guest.xen" First off Xen != KVM. Xen by provides a text based console for access to the paravirt guests only. KVM though is fully virtualized and (as with Xen fullvirt) does not provide a text based console. It merely emulates a Cirrus Logic graphics card as its default output. This is connected to either a X window, or a VNC server.

The closeest you'll get to a Xen paravirt style text console is to configure the serial console as your primary display. This requires configuring grub, the kernel, and inittab so won't work by default like a Xen console would