Description of problem: I installed a domain using the command line tools. When I want to use that domain now with virt-manager I cannot use the graphical console/framebuffer since the 'use_graphics' xenstore variableis set to "0" and there is no obvious way to change this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.2.3-2.fc6.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install doman with virt-install 2.start domain with virt-managet 3. Actual results: no graphical console Expected results: graphical can be enabled Additional info: virt-manager should allow we to select the graphical console. It should change the xenstore setting before starting the domain. This bug should probably be duplicated for FC7 and RHEL and made a blocker for RHEL5.
I should clarify this a bit. A more fundamantal problem is that I cannot start a domain which exists as a config file in /etc/xen in virt-manager. If this could be added, maybe virt-manager would set the variable. But so far I have to create the domain with xm create and then it seems already to be too late for virt-manager to do its magic. So, maybe the solution is to add a way to virt-manager to start a domain like xm create but also set the magic configuration options to create the graphical console.
Yes, virt-manager is unable to manage inactive domains - since XenD provides no API for enumerating them at this time. We are tracking work to add support for inactive domains in bug 210648 To get the graphical console working it needs to be enabled at the time you start the guest domain. For virt-install either use the '--vnc' command line arg, or say 'yes' when asked to enable graphics. For an existing domain, edit the config file in /etc/xen and add vnc=1 vncunused=1 and then re-start the guest - graphics should now be possible. virt-manager itself is unable to manage inactive domains - since XenD provides no API for enumerating them at this time, thus it has no way to enable graphics - this hsa to be done when the domain is started. We are tracking work to add support for inactive domains in bug 210648
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This capability is now available in upstream source repo. Will make its way into Fedora next time we sync up for an update. http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=bd282b353072