Thread: KVM virt-manager: Access CentOS Installer Remotely Over The SSH

Howdy!

I wanted to access the centos Linux installer using virt-manager using openssh client. I'm using -X ssh X forwarding

Code:

ssh -X root@server.ip.add
virt-manager

I setup new guest as centos with 2GB RAM and 20GB disk space with eth0 as bridge. So far so good but when I save changes it never show me centos installer. How can I fix this?

You need to configure vncviewer or set correct security permissions by editing libvirtd.conf. Than only it will work. I suggest it as follows to start installation:

Code:

ssh -X user@server
virt-install \
 -n centos \
 -r 1024 \
 --vcpus=2 \
--os-variant=rhel5.4 \
--accelerate \
-v \
-l http://mirrors.example.com/centos/5.4/os/x86_64/ \
-w bridge:br0 \
--vnc \
--disk path=/path/to/centos.img,size=20

This will start virt-viewer and X forwarding will display it back to UNIX operating PC.

It worked, thanks for the help!