I am able to do everything except use TightVNC to get into the server for installing the image.

 

TightVNC shows:  Couldn't Connect to '...ip...':  Connection timed out: connect

 

Any guidance?

 

root@Tower2:~# cd /mnt/cache/VM/windows/

root@Tower2:/mnt/cache/VM/windows# truncate -s 80G windows.img

root@Tower2:/mnt/cache/VM/windows# xl create windows.cfg

Parsing config from windows.cfg

WARNING: ignoring "kernel" directive for HVM guest. Use "firmware_override" instead if you really want a non-default firmware

xc: info: VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:

  Loader:        0000000000100000->000000000019ec84

  Modules:      0000000000000000->0000000000000000

  TOTAL:        0000000000000000->00000001ff800000

  ENTRY ADDRESS: 0000000000100000

xc: info: PHYSICAL MEMORY ALLOCATION:

  4KB PAGES: 0x0000000000000200

  2MB PAGES: 0x00000000000003fb

  1GB PAGES: 0x0000000000000006

Daemon running with PID 1863

root@Tower2:/mnt/cache/VM/windows# xl list

Name                                        ID  Mem VCPUs      State  Time(s)

Domain-0                                    0  2048    4    r-----      34.9

ubuntu                                      1  2048    2    -b----      12.4

windows8                                    2  8187    1    r-----      1.3

root@Tower2:/mnt/cache/VM/windows# xenstore-read /local/domain/2/console/vnc-port

5900

 

 

Thanks!

Have you specified what port vnc should connect on in the vms cfg file? Default is 5900, but you can force it to use a different one by the line vncdisplay=XX (XX being the last 2 digits of the port, eg 10 would be port 5910)

 

Hope that helps

 

Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk

 

 

You need to first make sure you're connecting the IP address of the HOST OS (and not trying to guess the Windows VM IP).

 

So if you're unraid box has an IP of 192.168.1.5 you would type that into tightvnc. You also need to disable all and any encoding, setting the connection to 'RAW' type. You're gona have a bad time if you don't or haven't done this.

 

As for the port number business, is your only VM? If so it should be on deafult port 5900 and then will increment automatically one by one.

 

Please post your .cfg in code tags so we can check this is OK.

I was trying to install the Ubuntu and Windows VM on hardware other than what I plan on running.  In addition I am trying this behind a work firewall.  This is, I believe, greatly complicating the process.  I am going to step back until the new Motherboard comes in and start fresh on both VMs on my home network.

 

name = 'windows8'

kernel = 'hvmloader'

builder = 'hvm'

vcpus = '2'

memory = '8192'

device_model_version="qemu-xen-traditional"

disk = ['file:/mnt/cache/VM/windows/windows.img,hda,w','file:/mnt/cache/VM/windows/dvd.iso,hdc:cdrom,r']

vif = ['mac=00:16:3E:51:20:4C,bridge=br0']

on_poweroff = 'destroy'

on_reboot = 'restart'

on_crash = 'destroy'

boot = 'dc'

acpi = '1'

apic = '1'

viridian = '1'

xen_platform_pci='1'

sdl = '0'

vnc = '1'

vnclisten = '0.0.0.0'

vncpasswd = ''

stdvga = '0'

usb = '1'

usbdevice = 'tablet'

# pci = ['01:00.0','01:00.1','00:1d.0']

# Enable Xen VGA Passthrough gfx_passthru=1

# VGA Passthrough Palit NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 VGA card. pci = [ '01:00.0','00:1b.0']

# PCI Passthrough Intel HD Audio Controller.

# pci = [ '00:1b.0']

# PCI Passthrough all the USB Controllers.

# pci = [ '00:1a.0','00:1a.1','00:1a.2','00:1a.7','00:1d.0','00:1d.1','00:1d.2','00:1d.7']