<p dir="ltr">The port is open on the local internal nic only. You'll need to forward the lo:5900 to your physical nic so it is visible to the external machines.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 10, 2015 8:57 PM, "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Friends:<div><br></div><div>I installed KVM on SLES 11SP3. I then tried to create a VM with KVM. The host ip is 25.16.214.41</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">vm-install --os-type "other" --name "ASB_CD_VM1" --vcpus 2 --memory 3072 --max-memory 3072 --disk /var/lib/kvm/images/ASB_CD_VM1/hda,0,disk,w,21000,sparse=0 --disk /tmp/SLES11SP2_.x86_64-0.0.3.install.iso,1,cdrom --nic mac=52:54:00:05:11:11,model=virtio --graphics cirrus --config-dir "/etc/libvirt/qemu"<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> It starts the VM creation but then I see this error.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Preparing to start the installation...</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Installing...</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Failed to display the VM's console because DISPLAY is not set. Please connect a VNC viewer to localhost:5900.</blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It says that I should be able to connect to port number 5900 using vnc. I went to my windows box and used vncviewer</div><div>vncviewer 25.16.214.41</div><div><br></div><div>However I get connection refused.</div><div><br></div><div>I did the following.</div><div><br></div><div>I see </div><div>virtual@chris-adp-sec:~> telnet localhost 5900</div><div>Trying 127.0.0.1...</div><div>Connected to localhost.</div><div>Escape character is '^]'.</div><div>RFB 003.008 </div><div><br></div><div>but if I type </div><div><div>roselcdv0068958:~ nlakshmi$ telnet 25.16.214.41 5900</div><div>Trying 25.16.214.41...</div><div>telnet: connect to address <a href="http://25.16.214.41" target="_blank">25.16.214.41</a>: Connection refused</div><div>telnet: Unable to connect to remote host</div></div><div><br></div><div>So the VM install cannot be seen or interacted with, this is causing issues.</div><div><br></div><div>My host machine is also a SLES 11SP3 but does not have a display aka 'X' on it so I have to use vm-install to install but I have to connect to the console using VNC but port is not exposed to outside the machine.</div><div><br></div><div>Can you folks help and suggest any ideas ?</div><div><br></div><div>-N</div></div>
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