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Lorin Hochstein
Asked: 2012-03-13 11:42:11 +0800 CST

Connect to kvm instance via VNC and view X session

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I've launched an Ubuntu 11.10 instance (oneiric-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img downloaded from here) inside of KVM, with VNC enabled. I can connect to the instance using VNC, and I see a login prompt.

I'd like to be able to use this VNC connection to show an X session instead of a text prompt. What do I need to install/configure so that this VNC session exposed through KVM shows an X11 session?

(Note that I can successfully switch between tty[1-6] by doing Ctl-Alt-F#).

xorg kvm vnc

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  1. Best Answer

    One way to do it is to install lightdm and unity-2d:

    apt-get install lightdm unity-2d
service lightdm start

    The KVM vnc will then default to the login page, which is X-based.

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