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11/10/2017 - 7:49 AM

How to connect vnc viewer to a kvm guest over ssh tunnel

How to connect vnc viewer to a kvm guest over ssh tunnel

amitava@bonjovi:~$ sudo virsh 
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.

Type:  'help' for help with commands
       'quit' to quit

virsh # start latticegrid-demo 
Domain latticegrid-demo started

virsh # list
 Id Name                 State
----------------------------------
  2 latticegrid-demo     running

virsh # vncdisplay 2
:0

virsh # 

# So guest is on vncport :0 (i.e. 5900:0)
# Create ssh tunnel to that port
ashee:~ amitava$ ssh -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 bonjovi 

# Now fire up Chicken of the VNC and select the following settings
# Host: locahost
# Display: 0