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=Accessing VNC Consoles=
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All the vm consoles on xenserver are per default only accessible via the http(s) interface, but with some few tricks you can access them directly:
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All commands are done via SSH on xenserver
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Warning - this bypasses a lot of xenservers security measures
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# Allow VNC ports through firewall
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## Append following line to /etc/rc.local
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## iptables --insert INPUT -p tcp --dport 5900:5999 -j ACCEPT
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=Running XenCenter on linux - doesnt work=
 
=Running XenCenter on linux - doesnt work=
  

Revision as of 09:13, 19 May 2012

Accessing VNC Consoles

All the vm consoles on xenserver are per default only accessible via the http(s) interface, but with some few tricks you can access them directly:

All commands are done via SSH on xenserver

Warning - this bypasses a lot of xenservers security measures

  1. Allow VNC ports through firewall
    1. Append following line to /etc/rc.local
    2. iptables --insert INPUT -p tcp --dport 5900:5999 -j ACCEPT


Running XenCenter on linux - doesnt work

  1. Download Xencenter from 6.0 550
  2. Install wine > 1.2 (apt-get install wine1.3 or what ever you got)
  3. Download winetricks: wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
  4. Use winetricks to install .net: sh winetricks dotnet2 Use winetricks to install mono: sh winetricsk mono210
  5. Install XenCenter from msi: wine start XenServer-6.0.0-XenCenter.msi
  6. use wine to launch mono and xencenter: wine "C:\\Program Files\\Mono-2.10.6\\bin\\mono.exe" "c:\\XenCenter\\XenCenterMain.exe"