Tuesday, January 20, 2009

20090120 - Installing a Para VM

# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k of=/OVS/running_pool/para01/System.img count=2000
2000+0 records in
2000+0 records out
2097152000 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 17.0235 seconds, 123 MB/s

# export DISPLAY=mydesktop:0

# virt-install --paravirt --name=para01 --ram=2000 --vcpus=1 --bridge=xenbr2 --file /OVS/running_pool/para01/System.img --vnc --vnclisten=0.0.0.0 --location=nfs:10.16.206.21:/mnt --keymap=en-us


Starting install...
libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed:

VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X - built Jul 27 2007 14:41:26
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

Tue Jan 20 01:07:23 2009
CConn: connected to host localhost port 5901
CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.8
CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8
TXImage: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 24.
CConn: Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222
CConn: Using ZRLE encoding

This will pop up a X11 VNC console :