[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [Xen-users] Pasting into virtual console?
Practically anything you can do on a real machine, you can do on a virtual one. If you can normally make RealVNC/TightVNC servers run and do what you want on the OSes that you are using in your VMs, then you should be able to do it the same way in the VMs (granted more port mapping will be necessary). I'm out for the weekend, but perhaps someone else can help you, or perhaps that's enough info. Dustin -----Original Message----- From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Dyer-Bennet Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 16:57 To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Pasting into virtual console? On Fri, October 3, 2008 15:36, Dustin Henning wrote: > An HVM VNC console is more like a KVM connection. Think of it like > this, if you were to sit on computer A, hit copy, then press a button on a > KVM to switch to computer B and hit paste, nothing would be copied from > computer A to computer B. The reason you can do this with > TightVNC/RealVNC > is because they are integrated into the OS, however, the VNC connection to > your HVM is simply connected to the virtual console (emulation of screen, > keyboard, and mouse/tablet). In this situation, you can copy and paste, > but > not from another host. However, you might be able to get your VNC client > to > paste plain text (as it would be able to send a series of keystrokes), > this > would be dependent on your client and may or may not even be possible. > Finally, if you need this functionality, you can install RealVNC/TightVNC > on > the OS within the HVM, and connect to it instead of connecting to the > virtual console provided by Xen (or with a Windows HVM, you could just use > Remote Desktop). This is assuming your situation allows for direct > connections (bridging), or you have the ability to set up the appropriate > NAT/routing. I've got the Windows Remote Desktop setup working; mapped ports on the LVS box connecting through to the various Windows virtual servers behind it (same way people get access to the VNC consoles of the various virtual servers). I'm annoyed at the VNC clients; neither tightvnc nor realvnc seems capable of pasting text in. That's extremely unfortunate -- I'm going to get complaints about having to type these login passwords by hand, I can tell already! I don't like it too much myself. Are you saying there's some way to run a vnc server at the OS level, not as a logged in user, and then connect to that rather than to the virtual console? It's not too important (ssh is fine for linux-side access), but now you've got me curious! Currently there are about three mapped ports per virtual server. I hope this doesn't keep growing! -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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