[et-mgmt-tools] virtmanager error when trying to connect on Ubuntu

[Cam Macdonell]

Hugh Brock wrote:
> Cameron Macdonell wrote:
>> On 17-Sep-07, at 12:43 PM, Hugh Brock wrote:
> Well, it depends on how you have defined any VMs you are running. If you 
> have defined KVM vms via libvirt, then virt-manager will get the 
> relevant information for them from libvirt and display them in the UI. 
> If you haven't defined any domains at all, you can create them by 
> clicking the "new" button next to the KVM connection in virt-manager.
> 
> If you've created a KVM guest outside of libvirt, you'll need to 
> redefine it using libvirt via "virsh define", or manually place a 
> complete XML domain definition in the correct directory under 
> /etc/libvirt -- otherwise libvirt has no way of knowing anything about 
> the guest and can't manage it for you.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> --Hugh
> 

Thanks Hugh, your help has been invaluable.

I can start the VM, but I can't specify a VNC option (SDL works, 
though).  I keep getting "Could not parse VNC address".  I've read some 
pages that point to a dependency on gtkvnc error, but I wouldn't expect 
a dependency to manifest itself as an error like this (but I could be 
wrong).  I'm using Ubuntu which does not package virt-manager, so I've 
had to build mostly from scratch, is there a config option I'm missing?

Thanks again,
Cam