Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.2.0, VNC connection to Windows domU causes black screen on VNC

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 05:11:25PM +0300, Valtteri Kiviniemi wrote:
>    2012/10/3 Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]pasik@xxxxxx>
> 
>      On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:48:33PM +0300, Valtteri Kiviniemi wrote:
>      >    2012/10/3 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[1][2]konrad@xxxxxxxxxx>
>      >
>      >      On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Valtteri Kiviniemi
>      >      <[2][3]kiviniemi.valtteri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>      >      > Hi,
>      >      >
>      >      > Tested with realvnc and tightvnc. Realvnc just closes itself
>      when the
>      >      > resolution changes and tightvnc just stays open with the black
>      screen.
>      >      >
>      >
>      >      Lets first see if this is a problem with Windows 2008 expecting
>      >      certain registers in the VGA
>      >      emulation and falling flat on its face.
>      >
>      >      If you launch (with the same guest config - but obviously replace
>      the
>      >      ISO), with an
>      >      Fedora or Ubuntu LiveCD - does it boot? Do you see the VNC screen
>      >      changing resolution
>      >      and all that?
>      >
>      >    Hi,
>      >
>      >    Same problem with Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso. I after the
>      >    resolution changed the screen goes black. If I change stdvga to 1 I
>      will
>      >    see a bit further but then the VNC client crashes and says
>      something about
>      >    unsupported features (dont know even if it should work).
>      >
> 
>      Did you try xvnc4viewer? or normal vncviewer? or virt-viewer?
>      I usually use virt-viewer without problems..
>      -- Pasi
> 
>    Hi,
> 
>    I'm using Windows 7 in my desktop-computer, so I have not tested any other
>    vnc clients than ultravnc or tightvnc. I can of course test others too if
>    there is windows binary available.
> 

I don't think I've ever tried using from Windows :) 

How about installing Xming to your Windows box, and then use putty ssh X11 
forwarding to dom0,
and execute vncviewer/virt-viewer in dom0? You'll get the vnc GUI displayed on 
your Windows.

-- Pasi


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