[ale] KVM, the vm install on SLES and the port issues

[Beddingfield, Allen]

Did you go into "yast firewall" and open port 5900?  You will want to go ahead and open up a range, because it will start at 5900 and count up as you add VMs.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama
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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Narahari 'n' Savitha [savithari at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7:54 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: [ale] KVM, the vm install on SLES and the port issues

Friends:

I installed KVM on SLES 11SP3.  I then tried to create a VM with KVM.  The host ip is 25.16.214.41

vm-install --os-type "other" --name "ASB_CD_VM1" --vcpus 2 --memory 3072 --max-memory 3072 --disk /var/lib/kvm/images/ASB_CD_VM1/hda,0,disk,w,21000,sparse=0 --disk /tmp/SLES11SP2_.x86_64-0.0.3.install.iso,1,cdrom --nic mac=52:54:00:05:11:11,model=virtio --graphics cirrus --config-dir "/etc/libvirt/qemu"

 It starts the VM creation but then I see this error.

Preparing to start the installation...

Installing...

Failed to display the VM's console because DISPLAY is not set.  Please connect a VNC viewer to localhost:5900.

It says that I should be able to connect to port number 5900 using vnc.  I went to my windows box and used  vncviewer
vncviewer 25.16.214.41

However I get connection refused.

I did the following.

I see
virtual at chris-adp-sec:~> telnet localhost 5900
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
RFB 003.008

but if I type
roselcdv0068958:~ nlakshmi$ telnet 25.16.214.41 5900
Trying 25.16.214.41...
telnet: connect to address 25.16.214.41<http://25.16.214.41>: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

So the VM install cannot be seen or interacted with, this is causing issues.

My host machine is also a SLES 11SP3 but does not have a display aka 'X' on it so I have to use vm-install to install but I have to connect to the console using VNC but port is not exposed to outside the machine.

Can you folks help and suggest any ideas ?

-N