Xen console

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> When I run the command "xm create -c mydom" on the Xen host, the
>>>>> console
>>>>> for
>>>>> the domain mydom opens as expected.
>>>>>
>>>>> On my workstation, when I run ssh -l root -X xen-host "xm create -c
>>>>> mydom"
>>>>> it fails and complains that "Error opening terminal: unknown".
>>>>>
>>>>> I can use vnc, nx to the xen-host but I would like to know how to do it
>>>>> with
>>>>> ssh -X.
>>>>
>>>> export TERM=xterm
>>>
>>> I set it in both the workstation and in the command that sends thru ssh
>>> -X
>>> but it does not help.
>>
>> How or where are you setting TERM=xterm ?
>> Are both ends Linux?
>> Can you successfully run any other apps successfully over ssh (xterm,
>> etc)?
>> If you ssh to the remote end, then manually run the commands manually,
>> does that make a difference?
>>
>
> I set it at both ends with "TERM=xterm;export TERM". I only have that
> problem thru ssh -X with that particular command "xm create -c mydom", which
> -c is to open the console of the xen guest.

*WHERE* did you set it?  No where in your ssh command do I see it set.

>
> Any other commands, like xterm, xclock, gnome-terminal, or virt-manager ...
> all run fine with ssh -X, i.e., they all show up on my workstation as
> expected.

Then perhaps xm can't be run over ssh?



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