| Summary: | RFE: Impossible to change VNC port (5901) with Anaconda installer | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Peter Åstrand <astrand> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | David Cantrell <dcantrell> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, dcantrell, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2012-10-04 00:00:30 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Peter Åstrand
2011-12-16 10:51:38 UTC
The code in RHEL6 sure looks like this is supported. Did you try? Do you have any log files or error messages? I tried changing "vnc vncpassword=something" to "vnc --password=something". This caused Anaconda to warn me about running without a password. Also, as far as I can see, the RHEL documentation only mentions the old syntax/options: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/sn-remoteaccess-installation.html#sn-remoteaccess-installation-vnc : linux vnc vncpassword=qwerty That page describes command line options, not kickstart options. In order to see what's going on here, I need your kickstart file and /tmp/anaconda.log. You can remove any sensitive information like passwords from your kickstart file first. It's a command line option that I want. I am not using Kickstart at all (except that I specify ks=file:/dev/null on the command line to work around bug 673864). Sorry for confusing you by referencing the Kickstart page, but I thought that the options were in sync. The complete command line I'm using is: vnc --password=something ks=file:/dev/null This causes Anaconde to print the error: WARNING!!! VNC server running with NO PASSWORD! Created attachment 548784 [details]
anaconda.log
You're using the wrong command line option syntax, which is why I thought you were using kickstart. You should be using vncpassword=something, instead of --password=something. That's what the page you referenced in comment #3 is telling you to do. Then we are back at the original problem: The lack of an option for specifying the port. A command line such as: vnc vncport=4711 ...does NOT work. And as I said, the documentation does not list any "vncport" option either. If there is a way of specifying the VNC port, then tell me how the command line should be. The option you want is vncconnect=HOST:PORT
In a kickstart file, you can do:
vnc --host=HOST --port=PORT --password=PASSWORD
The host and port specified refer to the vnc viewer that is already listening for the installer to connect to it. If you want to pass this option on the boot command line, the syntax is:
vnc vncconnect=HOST:PORT vncpassword=PASSWORD
The syntax is documented on this page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options
Using the host and port options for vnc mode requires that you have a VNC viewer running and listening on that port.
No. vncconnect is en entirely different thing, since it creates a reverse VNC connection. It's an entirely different thing. That does not work in my network scenario. OK, well that's all anaconda has ever supported in terms of setting the VNC port. Changing the product to Fedora as this is an upstream feature request. Patch posted to add this functionality to the boot time arguments. This can be done in branched composes now. |